El Rancho:

HAPPY PI DAY!(I was the only one on the team enthusiastic about today,but maybe thats because everyoe else was half asleep at 5am when I announced it to evryone)

The alarm sounded a 4:15 am. Nope,no typo there. Very very early wakeup time. We were supposed to head out at 5am, but we didn't leave til 515. We left so early because we needed to travel to the other side of Guatemala City before rush hour traffic. We stopped at McDonalds a little before 7am for breakfast, it was pretty delicious. I personally say it's better than McDonalds in the states. The McDonalds was interesting because they did not have jelly. Another cool fact was that they played US Music like what's on Z1077..ex: Brittney Spears and Katy Perry. After Mickey D's, we drove about an hour and a half to our hotel. After dropping off our luggage, we headed another 20 minutes away to El Rancho for some light construction and a VBS Program. The light construction was putting a roof on a feeding center. We started out by painting and then later on the strong men put the roof up. By the end of the day, almost the entire roof was up! It was very very hot outside-but no complaints here because it's better than snow :)

During some down time, the teenagers started talking with some of the kids that were hanging around. At first, we weren't sure how to communicate because of the language barrier. We soon discovered that the language barrier is not a barrier at all. We pointed to items and asked how to say it in Spanish, and then we told them how to say it in English. In return, the children taught us some of the games that they play for fun. We had no idea what was going on, but seeing them laugh and have fun was an awesome sight. We broke out a few soccer balls, and our two track stars Kailey and Paige got their workout for the day! They were kicking the ball around and also playing chase.

For lunch, the pastors wife and some other women made us lunch. They didn't have to-but they did. It was an incredible meal. Before lunch, they were making tortillas. Some of our team went back and watched. Some attempted, but for most it was a fail. But it was so much fun to try :)

The children absolutley love having their pictures taken! We ask before we take photos-and when we weren't they were asking us to take them. They also had so much fun dancing at the VBS Program! Before we began-they were singing for us! One of the songs they sang, was also one of our VBS songs! There was so much love for Christ at that church-it was incredible.After the program, we gave out some of our giveaway stuff: toothbrush,toothpaste,pencil,eraser,coloring book&crayons!

After cleaning up, we headed back to the hotel for dinner and preparing for tomorrows adventure.
It's been an incredible day serving the Lord. We're all excited to head out tomorrow to show the love of Christ to more children!

Highlights of the day:
-Kailey teaching the children to play volleyball..with a soccer ball.
-Seth looked good all day(his words)
-Our track stars getting their daily workout shoving cement with a broken shovel and playing chase with the kids.
-The chickens that were running around everywhere
-Seeing the passion that Pastor Gonsavo had to serve Christ even being partially blind and deaf.
It was a very motivating and inspirtational day for us all.And guess what?
 WE GET TO DO IT AGAIN TOMORROW!!!!!