...we went in a couple homes and saw the kids. They love Fr. Vincent.  He is amazing with them.  He has so much love and compassion.  He handed one of the kids to me.  I just looked in the little girl's eyes.  I wanted to cry, but she just kept giggling.  hope, i thought, Fr. Vincent has given them hope.  We went to the hospital portion of the village.  we met a seven year old girl named Gloria.  She weighed 22 pounds.  She was literally nothing but skin and bones.  it made me sick looking at her frail body.  she didn't talk but instead showed us that was was able to write her letters and numbers.  Fr. Vincent said she actually looked great because she was sitting up.  I can't imagine what she looked like before.  Lastly we went to the schoolhouse where 40 kids sat at their desks.  The sisters there told us they were going to sing for us.  They all jumped up and SCREAMED every word to every song with huge smiles on their faces.  i started to cry.  it was so beautiful, so innocent and so heartbreaking at the same time.  for the last song they did actions and dance steps.  it was adorable.  i wanted to believe that they were all healthy children, but that was not the reality.  i continued to fight back tears.  They all yelled, "Bye, bye!" waving their hands and shaking ours as we left.  Absolutely precious...We stepped right outside of the classroom where Fr. Vincent talked for a short while before we had to leave.  He said, "I know I can't heal everyone that is sick, but that is not justification for me not to help the number of people I can."  He told the story of the starfish.  He said a young boy was walking along the shore at night throwing starfish back into the ocean.  An older man saw him and asked what the little boy was doing.  the boy replied, "I'm saving these starfish.  They'll die if i don't."  The older man said he couldn't possibly save them all.  The boy picked up a starfish and said, "Not all of them, but this one, this one...I can."  I cried, couldn't hold it back anymore.  I lost it.  How amazing.  God Bless that place...