Friday Night

Still Hauling Supplies!

Kristy communicaing with some children at the home of one of our stove sights.

The Soccer Team.  A little hilly!

Coffee Beans

7 PM Friday Night

Hello everyone,

I am staying back at Oscar’s house to catch up on our blog so I can skip having to do it late tonight.  Some of us have a bit of a cold including me.  The rest of the group is over at the church doing English as foreign language training and flannel graph training.

Today we had worship at our usual time of 7 AM.  It kind of looked like zombie land.  We all are pretty beat.  Our schedule has been quite busy and our mission is winding down.  At our worship Kristy read Psalm 100 and then we all prayed for what we were thankful for.

Karla had fresh fruit and French toast for breakfast.

We spent the morning to mid afternoon at El Yalu.  We put the finishing touches up on the three stoves and took remaining supplies up to the forth site.  At the forth site the stove foundation and three courses of brick were placed.  We also served the children their 3 times a week meal again and left around 2:30.

We cleaned up at the motel and then went to town and spent an hour or so checking out some of the Tiendas (small stores) and the market for an hour or so before going to Oscar’s for dinner.  Dinner tonight was steak, grilled potatoes, and peaches and ice cream.  Yum!

As I stated earlier the team is at the church right now for our final training.  This will complete our mission so to speak.  Tomorrow will be a fun day sightseeing at Antigua.  Maybe the volcanoes will be visible tomorrow.  It has not been very good for volcano sightings this week.  We have had clouds a quite a bit but the weather has been great.  Cool nights around 50-55 and then warming up to 70-80 during the day.  Today was the warmest day of 80 I am guessing.

Not a lot of highhlights to talk about as I was not able to talk to others and was a little more isolated that other days.  Most of team did go up this huge hill past a quarry to this majestic view of El Yalu.  Some of us did do that yesterday but today some of us went even farther until we got to some of the fields where workers were working their crops.  Also up there were coffee trees.  I am including a picture of them.

The other highlight has is a personal story.  The Lake Wisconsin church is thinking about doing a fund drive to pay for a playground on a piece of property that Los Olivos owns.  We have tried to script some video and were not quite sure what might work.  As I was coming up a road for the last time to the feeding center I looked over and saw these children playing soccer.  What was different?  They were playing on this ridiculously slopped ground with bamboo goal posts.  After cutting through some fields and across a ravine I was able to get to them and record and photo them.  Certainly I had to play a little soccer with them.  Big mistake.  One time I was kicking the ball down the hill I was not sure I was going to be able to stop without taking a dive.  Anyway God has plans for this moment.  I think there will be great things that will come of it.

Finishing up the team is so appreciative to all and we have discussed the comments that some of you have posted.back home that have been monitoring our actions and praying for us.  We have heard your prayers

Wish us a wonderful relaxed day tomorrow and a safe trip home on Sunday!

Roger