My family sponsored a little girl named Nathaly soon after the concert. Unforunately, Nathaly moved to an area that Compassion didn't work in before any of us even had a chance to write to her. My mom had Compassion send us the name of another girl in the same age group who spoke Spanish and needed a sponsor (Spanish since me and Joset are learning it, so we could write to her in her own language). So we began sponsoring a precious 8-year-old Bolivian girl named Virginia.
By this time, I had no excuse. I wrote letters to Virginia, but I knew that God wanted me to sponsor a child on my own. For over a year, I just kept putting it off. I don't know why, I just did, and I felt really guilty about it. We went to another Todd Agnew concert during that time, and of course he was talking about World Vision again. I was interested, of course, as he talked about the impoverished kids that needed sponsors, but nothing said there was earth-shattering for me. I already knew that God was leading me to sponsor a child. I knew, and I wanted to, but somehow I kept fighting it. Procrastinating. I left that concert with fresh determination to sponsor a child... then came home and forgot about it.
It was not until about 3-4 months later that finally I followed God's leading to sponsor a child. I'll explain what happened in the next post
