6-Feb, Thursday
Bendiciones mis amigos! I come to you from the end of yet another
beautiful day here in the mountains of Guatemala. Lately the weather has been
back to normal, around 70 each day with mostly sunny skies. It’s pretty
pleasant in the shade, but in the sun it quickly comes to mind how close we are
to the equator! Some afternoons, like today, a thick haze sets in, which some
say is from smoke from the nearby volcanoes. In a way, though, the haze
enhances the beauty and contrast of the mountains.
This afternoon was the Kids for
Christ Club followed by a feeding program. For an hour or so we take all the
kids from the church to the nearest campo (one could roughly call it a football
field). A lot of the older kids, and including me of course, play a friendly
game of football (that is, of course, soccer), while some of the other kids in
groups play games with their Sunday school teachers (kids from the youth
group). At least, ideally this is the situation at the campo, but typically it
just ends up being 80 or so kids running around all over the place. The
football game is about the most organized part. I really enjoy it, though,
because it’s one of the few times I can really interact with the kids and
language is not a barrier. Plus, I can go back to my "roots" on the
soccer field!
After the campo, we all pile in a
van and a minibus (that’s right, all 80 kids plus some youth) and head back up
the hill, past the few tiendas which define the aldea of Santa Rosa, to the
ministry house/church. While the kids were at the campo, their moms were at a
service at the church. Soon after the kids are all let loose again back at the
church, they all grab their bowls and line up for the food. Typically we serve
them each a spoonful of beans, one of rice, and a tortilla. I love looking in
each one of their faces as they pass through the line! (See the picture on my
front web page, starring Wilbur.) After the kids, it’s the moms, and then if I
am the one serving the kids can come back for as many seconds as they want
until we run out.
So, Thursday is a fun day but
exhausting! Plus I always feel filthy after playing in that field. It’s getting
well into dry season now, so all dirt is pretty much dust, including a large
part of the campo as well as a large section of the road to Gorrion! I have
felt covered in it all day.
Overall things are going pretty
well. I’m not in language school anymore, mainly because it was taking too much
of my time away from the ministry here, and while in school I felt it hard to
get much work done. Most of what I’m doing on a daily basis is computer stuff.
We are trying to jump start a concession stand type thing to run in the
afternoons and at the services, so I’m trying to get a good handle on all of
that, too. I’m getting to know the people of the church much better too, it’s
difficult with the names, but I have no problem with all of their smiling
faces! I would still like to get much closer with them, though, especially with
the youth. It’s a slow process, but every day is one more step!
Also, my life has changed a lot the
past two weeks—I have some new compadres to speak English with! Two guys from
my church in Atlanta have come down to join me for awhile. Jeff and Nathan came
a week and a half ago and will be soon moving down to the hospitalito to manage
its construction. (Hearts for the Children is in the process of building a free
pediatric hospital in Guatemala City.) But for now the boys are staying here at
the ministry house and going to language school in Antigua like I did. Also I
have become good friends with Sergio’s nephew, Juan Jose, who has studied quite
a bit of English.
So, things are going well! Tomorrow
we three Americanos are going with the Allans away for the weekend to a
vacation house (of Elizabeth’s aunt) near the beach. I will admit it will be
good to step away for a day or two and relax, although Saturday is typically
good downtime anyway. I have especially been having a good time on the weekends
with my new English speaking friends, from taking a walk through Antigua, to
bowling, to a day at the beach, to dinner at TGI Friday’s! I am quite glad to
have had the first month to get my foothold here on my own, but I didn’t even
realize how much I missed friends until I came across some again!
And I still miss
EACH ONE of you dearly, so please keep in touch!
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