I See a Light

Today I finished my classes.  Whoa. I survived.
Now I have a week and a day until I hop on a plane to America.
It's so weird that its December and its not cold, but its pretty nice.  I've grown to like the warmness, something I didn't think would happen.  We all know how I tend to complain about the heat. ha.  I am looking forward to winter though, I'm ready to have to wear a coat instead of having to wear shorts.  Anyways.

These past few months I've been learning lots on community development and I've learned some things. (I'll keep it short, if you want the long version, me you and chia is always an option)
1) Its a challenge.  Just because a theory looks real nice on a sheet of paper doesn't mean that it will actually work.   
How do you convince a family to start growing their own vegetables, because its more sustainable when they have always gone to the forest to find food?  Why take the time and money to grow food when the forest does it for them?  Personally I have no affective idea/way to tackle this question, which is a good thing since I'm not a development worker.
There are ways to develop a communities, it just takes patience and humble work.  It actually is good to not rush into things and pause and ask questions. 

2) I'm not called to development work overseas.  I would just make things worse for these people.  I'm not saying that westerners can't come over and help develop communities.  I believe that God has called people to do so and amazing things have happened.  But for me, working in my home country is ideal.  I know the issues and whats going on, so I should use my knowledge to help better my community.