You would be amazed!

Today after everyone sleeping for 8 (me) to 13 (katelyn) hours. We woke up to a beautiful day here in Guatemala city. After. Real fast we went to tour the Christian academy of Guatemala where we did some cultural and safety training before heading to the women's shelter. At the shelter we had a lot of projects to do. We built and secured a swingset for the kids, we worked on a plumbing project in which uncle Greg won the award for getting extra time to shower by cleaning out the hole in the ground that's under the toilet, and we went old school farmer style by digging out terraces in this hillside to allow them to grow corn on while also trying to protect the hill from erosion. We will share pictures when we get back you will not believe the transformation to that hill it's impressive. In the midst of all the work we also got to play with the little kids and interact with the women. They ladies taught many on the team how to hand make tortillas and cook them over a wood fire. Nicholas also got his name changed to el caballo (horse) by all the little kids because they had him swinging them around and giving piggy back rides for hours on end (I think he might have burnt the most calaries of any of us.

Everyone seems to be in good spirits and I think all of the girls (except maybe one or two successfully took a three minute or less shower). If fact Alexa, Lauren, and Natalie were under 2 minutes. And they all did it with smiles on their faces.

Please be praying for our activities tomorrow. We are doing a presentation of the gospel through music and skits tomorrow to around 1000 kids 150 at a time in a public school in one of the poorest o the poor communities in the city (its a squatters village). Following our program we will also be seeing some of the community and meeting a pastor there that is doing a lot of really neat things. I am confident it is going to be a worldview shattering day for most of us as our idea of poverty is confronted by a whole new level of poor.

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