A Busy day of Work and Play

We started our day at Mocohan moving dirt from one side of the playing field to the other. Someone else had dug a well and we were moving the excess soil and leveling a sloped area for a future meeting/devotions room will be.

For those who were on the 2006 team these pictures will have special meaning as that team was the ones to dig the first foundations for this school. Due to Holy Week the students are on holidays so we did not have the help that we usually pickup from curious neighbourhood children. Some of us spent some time washing down desks and cleaning classrooms.

In the afternoon we split up into two groups and visited some of our sponsor children. This turned into a very powerful experience for the team. The joy you can see in the child's face and the unbelievable gratitude in the faces of the parent. Some of our team chose to sponsor a child while on the trip and so got to chose from a group of pictures. We then went and visited that child. The really neat aspect is that the family did not know we were coming or why. So the surprise was even greater. Each visit had it's special moment so you will have to enjoy (endure) a lot of stories when we get home.

Some of RCS families have been sponsoring a child for a few years so it is very special for those children to meet us. The look on Jordan's sponsor child's face when Karren told him who Jordan was will stay with Jordan for many years.

In the evening we joined the youth group at Chamche for a bbq and some ice breaker games. Mr. M did not catch the water balloon very well so he had an embarrassing wet spot for a while. (It was raining and the humidity was very high so the spot stayed a long time.)

After the BBQ we loaded everyone into vans. Our van had an estimated 40ish stuffed into it. (this is a very large van but it was crowded) and went to the other side of town for a soccer game. The teams were mixed, girls, boys Guatemalan and Canadian. Heber made teams of 6 or 7 and we played winner stays. There started out to be about 8 teams. Two hours later the diehards were still playing which meant only 5 or 6 teams were still there.

Tomorrow (Saturday) will be another special day (They all seem to be special) we will go to the worksite in the morning and then to the hospital in Coban in the afternoon to visit and pray for sick children and to deliver gifts to the moms in the maternity ward. Some of our team are looking forward to this and others are a little apprehensive. I do not think we will have trouble getting to sleep tonight as it was an exhausting day. Thank you for your prayers so far, please know they are working as we are quite healthy and our work has been productive.