Hello everyone!
Sorry, that I havent been posting at all lately. The last couple of days have been really full, and when we get home so late, its hard to want to stay up later.

Anyways, we arrived safely!!! On Saturday we didnt have any problems with any of our flights, and we arrived on time! That night we were supposed to do a bonfire with the kids of the Madre Anna Vitiello orphanage, but due to us stopping at the hotel first, and getting stuck in traffic, we arrived to late and we were not able to. That night we all went to bed tired!

The next morning, bright and early, we went to a small sumpango church, where we acted out Peter walking on the water story, and had some of our group memebers share their testemonies. Later that afternoon, we went to a different sumpango church where we did some carnival games! These were ring toss, trying to catch fish with magnets (not actually fishing), face painting, three legged race while trying to balance an egg on a spoon and a waterballon toss! After that, we did the Peter walking on water story again, plus we had a worship time, and then finished up the group testemonies.
Later that night, around dinner time, we went back to the orphanage (that we will be spending a lot of our time) to have our promised bonfire with extra large marshmellows. The kids loved to stuff the marshmellows in their faces, and after two they were all sugered up and ready to go!
After that, we went to Betty's house to have dinner. Betty is a Guatemalan tour guide who is currently working with us to be our translator, our host, and a coordinator who helps us with everything.
After our bellies were full with delicious homemade Guatemalan food, we went back to the hotel for reflection time and then bed!!!!!!!!


This morning we woke up around 7:30, ate breakfast and then left to start our day. Today we started off by going to the sumango church (the second one) where we did a VBS. We read them the story of Noah and the Ark, and had them act it out. One of our team members made little animal puppets so those were a big hit for them. While some of us were doing the VBS, another half of the team went on home visits where they went to go talk to people, pray for people, and read them a little bit of the bible. I heard that they were very powerful, and that it was a very emotional expirience for our team members and for that certain family as well. Yet another thing was going on, while these two groups were out. A lot of the families who go to church, are very young. The parents are around 16-20 and usually their husband beat the wifes who attend church. Sometimes even the kids. So one of our team members were helping them cope with that as well,

I wish i could tell you more, but the hotel manager just kicked me out... its closing time. So, ill try to blog tomorrow!

Have a great night!
Lilly Turnquist