Guatemala Day 6 The two team members who were sick yesterday were better today…but we had another team member sick today – he is already feeling much better. Please pray that no one will be sick on Sunday when we are traveling home…I know from an unpleasant experience that they will not let you board a plane if you are sick. Today was our last day to visit an orphanage. That is always a sad time. The orphanage we visited today has 85 boys ages 5-16. There is another orphanage very close that brought their about 30 children over for the morning. That orphanage has young boys and girls. There were also about as many boys and girls from the village there as there were orphans. All of these boys and girls were very well behaved. This orphanage director runs a tight ship! We were actually able to spend more time with the children today than we were at any of the orphanages all week. Last year there were many people from the villages so we really didn’t know what to expect. We had 600 bags of cookies, chips, drink boxes and we fixed 600 hotdogs! While part of the team was getting the hot dogs ready the other half of the team presented the lesson and then played with the children. We then fed all of the children and then played some more. We then made the bracelets. All of the children then put on a program for our team. They presented the flag, sang their national anthem, said their pledge and then the dancing and music began. The children were so cute dancing and they take it so serious. They wanted us to experience their culture. We learned that it is disrespectful to clap after the national anthem…it is too serious. We then lined up and they lined up and each child gave each team member a hug on the way out. It was very sweet. When came back to the hotel to eat and have our meeting and devotion for the day. To sum the devotional up…God called Samuel at a very young age and he said “Here I am!” We have seen so many of the youth on this trip and previous trips who have heard the call of the Lord and have also answered…”Here I am!” All of the adults have been extremely blessed by these youth and young adults. They are here serving the Lord and obeying His call on their lives! Not only are they here to serve the orphan, but they desire to share Christ with the world. If you are young and are reading this…do not ever let anyone tell you that you are too young to serve the Lord! If you are “not so young” and reading this...please do not ever look down on someone because they are young…they have so much to offer and have such willing hearts! We have all been tremendously blessed! Every time we bring a team on a trip we tell them that love is a universal language and that communication is not as big of a problem as one might think. This is always a hard thing to imagine for team members…but all of us have had this confirmed to us over and over again this week! As I finish typing this, Raul is at another church preaching. He is very bold in his preaching and does not hold anything back. God blessed this ministry immensely when He brought Raul to us! We are so thankful to have a Spanish speaking board member who loves the Lord, and these children and who has a tremendous heart to serve others! The fact that he and his wife are from El Salvador and they know the culture is an added bonus! Tomorrow we will have our day off and will be in Antigua. We are hoping to have a fun day relaxing and enjoying this beautiful country before we return home on Sunday.