Last Day!

My heart grieves to know that in less than 24 hours we will all be leaving! Personally, I would be fine with not returning to america ever again. I have been personally blessed beyond measure, and have fallen in love with many children here! Tommorow we head to Antigua (spelling) and we go to the markets and have a "relaxing" period, although I would rather stay here. I have nothing else to report besides going in the pool today was SO COLD! Some of us tried to teach the children to swim in the pool (that is also our bath water). God bless! and please pray for the children of Guatemala.

Hola, This is David blogging n0w. Just fyi ... we have a teenager...a great teenager as our team blogger. It is unbelievable...we have been here for nearly four days and the guys just cleaned up from putting up a portion of chain link fence around the Eagle's Nest school and filled some concrete under the fence and fence posts. We had some great relationship building time with the men who work here at Eagle's Nest.

It is amazing to be here and see old friends from the town of Solola. Yesterday we attended an outstanding worship service...membership appears to have doubled from last year. The have a women's choir from the women who work at the orphanage or nearby the orphanage. And Sunday school for the kids. The orphanage kids here are always great. Although a few of our teens have some wet spots on their laps from potty training kids.

Yesterday, Sunday, was a great day...everyone was divided up in teams...many were organizing and dividing supplies, organizing teachers' supplies, prayer walking and another team planning the Manna feeding program. It was awesome teamwork in action by all!

Please be in prayer for Abby (fever), Jim B and Tomi J (stomach bug). And lift up the rest of us that we may stay healthy. . . most of the kids in the orphanage are sick too.

Day 4

Hola! Aright so the first thing I noticed about Guatemala ( I forgot to mention this yesterday) is how emancipated I felt when I realized EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE picks their noses here! I love Guatemala! On another note, today we spent scrubbing black mold (yum) off of the outside walls, as well as using white wash to spruce things up. The hunky muscular ones of us (the men) poured cement, as well as put up chain linked fences around the playground. Overall, today's highlight for me was working in the school on Eagle's Nest grounds. I was assigned to the kindergarteners with Racheal Beardsley and taught colors and numbers in English (made possible by some cute flashcards and play-dough). Three of the girls tried to trick me into giving them more candy and play-dough, but I can not be fooled with petty tricks I myself used to do to all my subs. :) Thank you so much for your prayers! We really need them!

P.s. The photo is a picture of the window behind me as I type to you all.

Attention!

hello fellow followers!

My, to actually be on the computer is a pain! today is absolutuely beautiful! few showers, but nothing too drastic to "dampen" the mood! I have already been truely blessed by the kindness and the generosity of the people here. Just yesterday, a village woman from San Teago (my best guess at spelling) invited us into her home and made us tortillas. The only electricity she had was a bare bulb, and cooked in a clay oven of sorts. All the children are so sweet! They just latch on to you and give you kisses! Although this has been short, dinner is in about 5 minutes, (at 4:45) as most folks back home are in the middle of dinner or finished.Feel free to comment with questions you would like answered in the next post. Until then, adios amigos!!!