Hello all!

Wow-- today was a great day! The past two days have been just as equally wonderful, but each day just seems to get a little bit better!

Today was a field day I guess you would call it for the school: a number of different soccer ("football") teams from surrounding schools and they had a series of tournamnets with the girls and boys teams. Because of this, we weren't able to jump into the lessons in the morning. Most of the older kids we were playing, so we simply jumped in on the fun and went along with it. We entertained the younger kids and got to watch some of the older kids in their games.

For lunch we were blessed to get to go over to the pastor's house, Cristantoas, where we had a delicious meal of fried chicken, gibnutt, fried plantains, beans, and home made tortillas. It was delicious! You can see Meagan in the picture above chowing down on one of the feet. Afterward we were able to go down to the river area and see where his family bathes and watches dishes. Their kids were running and jumping in and some of us were brave enough to join! (See above...)

After lunch we headed back to the school and had our first worship session with the older kids, ages 10 to 12. We sang three songs with them which the entire class seemed to really enjoy and then they got to see the skit we had prepared for the older kids. The skit was to a song by the band Lifehouse, and was about a girl in a relationship with God who is then pulled away from God by a boy, drugs/alcohol, money, self image and then self-harm. Dont worry, the skit didnt end on a depressing note, in the end the girl fights against all of these sins and gets back into a relationship with God. After the skit, we broke into small groups and discussed the skit with the kids who really seemed interested in what the skit was about. Additionally, the kids had a lot of questions about how to deal with sins that people their age may face everyday and how to overcome them. Overall, a lot of the gruop felt that they were really able to share the gospel through the use of the skit and the discussion afterwards.

Thanks so much for all of you that are praying for us and sending us sweet messages! We really do all appreciate it and cannot wait for tomorrow!