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July 18, 2011

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Thursday - Elder

I could tell you today how hard me, Bobby and Josh(Georgia) worked putting in a stove this morning. It was great and the woman who owned the "house" had such a heart breaking story and prayed the most awesome prayer. Or I could give details about our VBS that was partially rained out but we still had fun with the kids. But what is on my mind is Elder. He is the 13 year old at the feeding center that has stole my heart. He has 3 younger brother and sisters. Whenever we give candy or goodies away he is always certain to get enough for his siblings. I learned that his dad was killed in an accident a few years ago. We put a stove in their home on Tuesday and I seen his living conditions. That makes my heart hurt for him even more. When he looks at me it is not like the other kids. He is always glad to see me but I can tell he would like to have deeper conversations than we can communicate with our language barrier. He is the man of the home at such an early age. Only one...

Mission house

Here is our view of the volcano. Inside the common area. Front door The house is cut up funny. This is the back side Half of our room. Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Monday

We had to take over an hour drive to San Antonio because we could not go through Antigua. They had a festival today and we had to drive around the long way. We painted in the feeding center this morning. The feeding center is new in this area so it has a lot of work to be done to it. YouTube Video Mike also showed us how to construct a lava stove. The stove is made from block and lava rock. This one is in the feeding center for the kids in the village. When the kids came to eat they were timid of us at first. We gave them some goodies (candy) and they really warmed up. They had their rice, tortilla, veggie mix and some kind of vitamin drink mix. Then they were ready to play! We took them by bus a little way to the village park for VBS. The park was not much, but had coffee and guacamole trees which was cool! YouTube Video The VBS we did a lesson and some singing, then split the boys and girls to do crafts and a soccer game. San Antonio is a village where they make a lot of the texti...

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