Day 4

We woke up at around 8:00 to devour our pancakes. We’re finally getting used to the over anxious roosters. After breakfast, we decided to practice our new skit for the story of Noah’s Ark, thanks to the ingenuity of Laura. 6 of us practiced another skit called “The Doctor’s Office.” After practicing for about an hour we left at 10:00 to go to the same school that we did a service at the previous night, but this time the kids were younger because they were the morning students, there were about 150 of them. The setup was a little different due to the fact that the kids were all around us, making it a little difficult to face the crowd. The kids were definitely excited for Noah’s Ark and la casa se quema, as usual. After we were finished with our program, the kids returned to their classes. Afterwards, we went to the church where the local pastor teaches the poorer mothers how to do certain things that are necessary to get along. There were also things for children to do. We did a program at the church 2-3 hours after we met there for lunch. The program we did included la casa se quema, and Noah’s Ark. There were only about 30 children at the church. The children were over excited to see us there. It was the first program we did where the kids didn’t kill each other over pieces of candy, “dulces” as they say in Spanish. After we did the dramas the kids played musical chairs and “pato, pato, ganzo” which is duck, duck, goose in Spanish. After the game of duck, duck, goose, we handed out balloons and played with the kids for a while. We returned to the neighbor’s afterwards for lunch, which consisted of chicken, rice, and potatoes in some sort of gravy. We played with the village kids for a while and then headed out for the next school. It was a private school, but one of the services with a larger response, a lot of the kids responded to the altar call. The kids were older, and there were about 50 kids. We did la casa se quema, and the courtroom drama. Sam Fermenich gave her testimony. We left directly afterwards. We are staying up later tonight, because we don’t have to be up until 9:00 for breakfast. At 12:00 we are having lunch, and we don’t have a school assembly until 3:30. It was another busy day, but thankfully we will get time to rest tomorrow.

This blog post was written by Joseph Walker.