First, know that at breakfast this morning Tom prayed for us to have a surprise today. Well, needless to say, it was a day full of surprises! We worked this morning on three, important, simultaneous projects: preparing Christmas baskets for 100 needy families by measuring bags of corn and beans, continuing work on the sink project at the school, and installing another high-efficiency wood-burning stove for a family in the town of Maria del Carmen (Bill says the word "town" seems generous). At lunchtime, a surprise for the school project group - the van ran out of gas. So, after a bit of a wait, we managed to ride back to town in the back of the Mission Guatemala pickup truck (10 of us in the bed of the truck!). After lunch we split into three groups again to continue these tasks; the school sink project and the stove project continued into the evening, and we all met up again at the fire station for a wonderful dinner cooked by Delia. Regardless of the delays and frustrations of the day, we are all going to sleep tonight with good memories of hard work and laughter, happy images of joyful Guatemalan faces, and a feeling of peace that we are exactly where God wants us. Good night!
Words of the day from the team:
Laughter
Teamwork, joy
Awestruck
Emotional
Humility
Relationships
Surprise!
Feeding
Family
Fun
Country-rap (there's a story there...)
Headlights
Incongruous ("in corn grew us a palm tree")
Indescribable
Power-prayer
Much thanks to our Mission Guatemala leadership: Tom, Dave, Noe, Angel, and Elias. We are having the time of our lives!
Maurya, you did a great job with this blog! Thank you.
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