Guatemala Day 3

I am going to apologize now for any typos that may be in any of these updates…at the end of the day we are all extremely tired and I usually don’t have time to proof read what I am writing!

Today has mostly been a day of travel for the team.  A few team members got up and went to the village and purchased lots of food, cleaning supplies, and undergarments for this orphanage.  It was such a blessing to be able to provide for some of their needs.  We headed back across the lake at 9:00am to deliver the items we purchased along with some bibles and to visit with the children again.  The lady who runs the orphanage gave us a tour of their facility.  They have over 25 acres to garden…it is such a neat set-up!   We only spend about 2 hours there and the children were in school so we didn’t see much of them today.  We had to leave the orphanage by 11:00 so we could check out of our rooms by noon and head back to Guatemala City.  Ugh….another 6+ hour bus ride…but these children have been so worth the long drive and lack of sleep!  On our long journey back we noticed we were getting a flat time when we stopped for gas.  So we had to stop and get it fixed.  While we were waiting one of our team members climbed a tree to get his wife a mango, and the girls decided it was time to cut Tyler’s hair…so it was an eventful stop to say the least!  We were able to hand out gospel tracts here – so we are praying that they seeds planted will harvest a fruit!  After they fixed the tire the rest of the trip was very uneventful…except for the car we saw that had no doors…the driver had himself roped to the seat so he wouldn’t fall out…we loved it!  We heard lots of funny family stories and got back around 7:30pm. We had our team meeting while we waited for our supper to come.  We were all so tired that everything seemed hysterical.

Risa is not feeling well tonight…please pray that she will feel better tomorrow.  Pray for the 170 boys who will hear the message at the next orphanage.