The morning began with a prayer meeting, devotional time , and breakfast! The prayer meeting was held everyday at 6:30 a.m. for whoever would like to attend. There we prayed about many different things such as our God's mercy and love being shown through us, resting in the Lord, rejoicing in the Lord, and for things that may be holding us back from having a great week like fear or worry. That was a great way to start off the morning! Breakfast was always pancakes with variations of tortillas, eggs, beverages, and cereal which was amazing! When breakfast was complete, I gathered my gear for the day and met everyone else by the vans. From there we prayed for the day and ventured off to our communities! Upon arriving, there was more painting and cementing to be done. Since there were limited materials at times, we took turns playing with kids and coloring which was so much fun! While coloring, I got to the kids pretty well! They would ask us to draw anything from cameras to mermaids and princesses to fish, they loved those!
After a bit of coloring, I assisted in painting the outside of the community center along with some kids who wanted to help. While painting, we were given our snacks to eat which if I may say so myself contained a great deal of delicious fruit! Afterwards, I sat down and made pipe cleaner crafts with some of the kids and played a game of peek a boo with another kid. While playing, I noticed a little boy helping out with cementing and sweeping away the dust. He would do whatever he could to help out which was so awesome to see!
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| Fruit! |
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| Marcos! |
Today was such a great day full of coloring, playing with kids, and capucci (piggy back rides). Playing on the playground before lunch was very fun and watching soccer being played while children were laughing really brought joy to my heart! While playing, we were told it was time for lunch so we went back to the community center, ate some DELICIOUS food and drank more hickama juice, which was delightful! Then we helped the women in the community by making pinatas with the kids, which is a bit more difficult than it looks :) The girls I made the pinata with were good at knowing what to do and how much glue to put on the paper so it would stay. This was something I had not ever done before, but it was really cool! When we finished and cleaned up the mess we made, it was time for us to depart for the day and head back to Costco to meet the other groups and get some ice cream before going back to the ranch! Es muy delicioso! :)
Back at the ranch, there was more swimming and eating as well as some time we could all gather together and share our days and how the trip has changed us thus far. Afterwards we had a time of worship and fellowship as we met with our work groups and we participated in some team building activities which allowed us to think together as a team. Then it was family group time and free time, which was great to be able to share different things about the week with people outside of the community!
After piggy back ride races, I stopped, looked around, and saw a boy off to the side. He looked sad, so I walked over to him and offered to give him a piggy back ride. He was quite shy and shook his head no. Then I began talking to him to see what was wrong and to find out what his name was, but he still did not say much. I asked a few friends to help talk to him since I didn't know a great deal of Spanish. They talked to him and did not get much of an answer until his brother came over and talked to him, we eventually found out his name was Brandon. After staying by him and talking to him, I began to think of ways to make him laugh. Naturally, I made silly faces. He began to smile a little bit, but then stopped. I could see that he wanted to trust me, but was a bit hesitant to talk to me. In the Spanish I knew, I told him that I was kind and nice and asked him if he liked the Little Mermaid mural. He was warming up to me and ran over to the wall, motioned over to me to come over by him, and said some things in Spanish. I could pick out some words and he was talking about King Triten, then pointed to his shirt (Superheros) and said that Iron Man was his favorite. Then he started laughing and talking to me more, which was so great! I was so glad that God was able to help me stay by Brandon and try and talk to him. After that it was time to go, so I said goodbye and prayed that I would be able to see him again before I left. Which I did on the last day, I saw him laughing, playing ball, chasing people around, and having a great time and I was so excited to see him happy! My prayer was answered.
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change." -James 1:7
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