This morning began with an amazing breakfast, followed by a 3 hour trip in an old yellow school bus. The road from Guatemala City was steep, curvie, and hit pretty hard with mudslides. Then we turned off the highway for the last hour, and bounced away to San Lucas. Upon arriving at our hotel, we changed and headed out to our various worksites. Half of the group worked at digging three foundations for the three families that we have added to our schedule after they lost loved ones in the mudslides that followed Agatha. Olfi, was there for a little while, and she seemed like a really nice young lady. The kids were amazed at how much she could carry, as they struggled to keep up. It was amazing to watch how hard the team worked. Chisling rocks, digging ditches, and even moving boulders. The other half of the team was split between painting, laying bricks for a house and planting trees to help protect the coffee fields of the towns coffee
coop. Across the board, my greatest joy was watching our team interacting with the children and workers from Guatemala. It is really fun to look see the joy that the children get just from interacting with us.
Tonight it started raining, and it sounds like it might be raining pretty hard for the next two days.
Please pray for good weather, for our Vacation Bible Schools to go well tomorrow, and for the team to allow for the experience to stretch them.
In Christ,
Doug
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Thanks for your posts Doug, we are with you and are keeping you all in our prayers. Hope you have some BenGay tomorrow. Hi to Alandra and Heather and everyone else.
ReplyDeletei may not be there with you guys but i think that what you all are doing there great, its an inspiring example to the kind of charity you dont see nearly often enough these days. To Amanda, all of us (your friends that is) say hi and wish you and everyone else there a safe and fulfilling remainder of your time away
ReplyDeleteThe weather calls for rain at home today also. Blessings to you all! We send a special hi out to Danny.
ReplyDeleteDoug...thank you for your updates. Am so very proud of the team for all that you are doing. Thank you again for looking after Michelle and Chris. Please tell them that I love them and thinking about them daily.
ReplyDeleteAlways good to read the posts from Guatemala. Thanks for keeping us up to date.
ReplyDeleteWe are also enjoying hearing all of the updates, and appreciate them.
ReplyDeleteWe are praying for this wonderful team to take in all they can, and help as much as they can.
We are so proud of our niece Michelle, and our nephew Chris! Please let them know how much we love them, and cannot wait to hear all about their adventures upon their return.
Brian and Brooke Weeks
Hi Doug and team - Wow...it sounds like you all are working extremely hard thru difficult conditions. We are continuing to pray that the rain subsides and lives are changed. Hey Cam - Ted is predicting Lakers in seven..tonight! Blessings..Laura and Ted
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