Church

Good Evening! It's very late 11:30 p.m. as I type this and we all have to be up by 6:00 a.m. to start getting ready for the day, but I wanted to catch you up on a few things.

This morning we went to Joel's church and the kids went without leaders to Joel's youth group at his church. They had so much fun which included throwing water on Abby, Jill, and Jamie Slenk. They'll have to tell you the details of that one later. Then we all attended church together and scattered about the sanctuary. The service started at 10 and ended at 11:45. Joel said the preacher isn't usually that long. Thankfully, they had a power point going the whole time so that we could at least figure out what passage they were in and could look it up in english. I think it was Max who said to me "Well, that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be!" :)

We then headed to the mall, and as much as I tried I could not keep my group (Max, Jamie Slenk and April P) from eating American food in the food court. I will have to admit, the ice cream cone hit the spot! The other groups braved some Guat food, but others caved to American food also.

We then took the 1/2 hour bus ride to LaLimonada to see where we'll be serving for the week. I'll allow the kids to tell you about that when they get home, but here's a few of the comments from our team meeting tonight:

-It wasn't as bad as I thought (Janice had prepared the kids for a lot of poverty)
-When going into a tin hut, so short you had to duck and the potty, sink, and kitchen are all within 3' of each other, it shows how grateful we need to be for the kitchen's we've got and not complain that ours needs to be remodeled.
-Gave a new appreciation of comments at home when visitors come over and we say 'oh...so sorry for the mess, my house is such a disaster right now..' and to think that in one shack today the Dad was so proud of his house and wanted to show everyone where he lived. This is a place that has garbage all over the floor, tables, roof, everywhere you can think of...laundry hanging in every possible place. And he was proud to show it off!

We then headed to supper and had a fabulous meal. To my knowledge no one has been sick. Yea God! :)

You'll hear your kids voices soon! God Bless. Tami Sneller