Guatemala!
This week we woke up everyday at 5:10 so we could start preparing for our backpack trip. starting monday we have to walk with our backpacks on with a brick in them so by the time we go on our trip we will already be used to carrying 35-40 pounds on our back. I could not wait till today so I could sleep in!!
Sunday when we were throwing away our left over foods the one girl in our group told us to put it in another bag first. We, the Americans, could not understand why. What she told us made me want to cry. She said the reason for putting it in a bag was so that the people digging in the garbage for food would not have to look very hard. Before we put it in the trash we prayed over it. You have to understand that here there are many homeless people that are starving to death on the streets and they will do anything for food. One of our translators was telling us that on the cold days it is not uncommon to walk the streets and find dead people on them. It is just really cool to see how God is using us in our service ministries to still help people out.
Also, this week we started to prepare for VBS which will be taking place in 2-weeks. Lynnette and I are in charge of the memory verse games. We have alot of fun games picked out. Some of those games are scripture hunt, balloon pop, and boys vs. girls loudest. And each day we are going to spoil them with candy!! The last day we are hoping to get them bigger candy to give them and we are making them little gifts from us. We are going to make booklets with the four bible verses in them and then have a little note from us on the back, I am really excited to be able to pour into their lives at such a young age!!
