I know what esperanza means!

I know what esperanza means! Hope yes. But as we were talking in class today Cecelia one of the Lay missioners who is originally from Chile, was talking about how the word comes from the word esperar or to wait. To wait for God. Right now some regions will be closing and so a few of the lay missioners placements may change. We don't know when we will find out so we must esperar con esperanza. They sent us all notification in August that because of financial reasons Maryknoll will be focusing on fewer regions (one or two in Latin America, one or two in Africa, and one or two in Asia as opposed to the current fourteen regions- some of which contain multiple countries.)