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We visited this project the same day we were at Patzun. We were served lunch here. It was a typical Guatemalan meal one that is commonly served at weddings or special occasions. It is a soup that has a hunk of meat in it that you tear apart with your fingers and well...let's just say I am not very gifted with eating with my fingers, and I wore it well! While we were eating our lunch the children put on a performance for us. All the classes did something special about Guatemala. They sang songs about Guatemala they recited poems about Guatemala. I had a great time watching them with their expressions and the joy of sharing things about their country! From the youngest to the oldest they are so proud of living in Guatemala. This project has a church with it as well and this church has over 1200 members! Isn't that amazing? They take such care of their church building. It was very immaculate inside. A beautiful painting of a waterfall inside the church. We don't have many pictures of the children, but we do have a lot of video. I will try to get more pictures of the kids on here soon!

here are some pictures...

We visited a few projects this week. This is one that we had been to already, I wish I had pictures of it back then. They have repainted it since then and it is a beautiful school with a closed in court yard that has a church right next to it. The church has over 800 members! In Guatemala. That really got me thinking about how far some of these people really must have to go to attend church. They have services in the afternoon so that they can sell at the market before church and also get to church. It was so beautiful inside. There is a picture of it here. This is in Patzun. The people are so beautiful and we had a great time there. They had a play for us and the kids dressed up as different farm animals and sang "Down on Grandpa's Farm" Very sweet...the older kids played their recorders for us and also the xylophones. I can't remember the song they played for us, maybe Bob will remind me! (Hint)

These are some pictures of the children in Patzun and also of the church. A picture of the program they had for us too.
What a beautiful day we had. The Director of the school is such a Godly man who only wants the best for the children there. It was incredible seeing his compassion for the children there. He really wants to do his best and expects the children to do the same! They were all so very well behaved children. It was such a blessing to be there this week.

What great traveling roads

No pictures yet! but let me tell you about some of the roads we were traveling...steep does not describe what they were! Imagine traveling on a road that has switchbacks about every 100 feet, maybe not that often but it sure seems like it! If your tire goes off the road well...so do you! Dad if you are reading this, we are all safe and sound! We climbed a mountain and then I looked back down the side of it and saw a road below us, when I ever realized that we had just been on that road just a few minutes earlier it made me a little uneasy! Good thing I don't get car sick! that would have been interesting to say the least! There were cattle and horses in the road a very busy road for everyone and everything! I guess it was just paved in the past few years, I couldn't even imagine traveling on it as a dirt road. We are sitting and resting tonight and traveling tomorrow again so...more later!

Happy birthday Felipe

Here we sit in Guatemala, It is Phil's 37th birthday. We are enjoying our time here we finally got in at 5:00 am via LA. We were rerouted because the flight to Miami was full, we had fun learning patience yesterday. We were only 9 hours behind schedule even after our detour! And our luggage made it with us which we thought would not make it here! more later...