Torre Fuerte:Strong Tower

Hello World! Sorry for the delayed blog post, the wifi connection at the hotel was being wonky last night. So here is the blog post for Tuesday!
 
We began our day at Torre Fuerte,which in English means Strong Tower(cue Kutless' song Strong Tower) It is a school and church. We did our VBS Program with dancing,drama&a craft. The kids very much enjoyed doing the dances with us, and we had fun doing it with them! The drama was about Jesus' death on the cross and His resurection. Todd did an awesome job as Jesus, all three or four places we did this drama at.

During one of the songs,Anna sneezed. You're prolly wondering why I'm telling you that Anna sneezed. Well after the VBS, the pastor of the church came up and asked if she was sneezing in English or Spanish. Apparently, the achoo noise you make when you sneeze is slang for tomato in Spanish. Now everytime someone sneezes, we are all saying tomato. We also discovered that horses enjoy roaming the streets unaccompanied. Pretty interesting.

 After the children left at noon,and after our lunch and post afternoon nap(shown above),we began to paint the school. Todd also did an awesome job showing us the ropes of painting. He's a pro! While painting, we delighted ourselves with some acapella music. We seemed to be very slaphappy at this point,must of been the paint. It was discovered that Pastor Jimmy has inpecable taste in music. He knows all the words to Stacy's Mom..it seemed to be our theme song for the day. We eventually moved on to worship music. We listened to Mark Roach and the MSC Praise Band CD's on the Ipad. Mark Roach and the worship team totally put on a concert in Guatemala..and they didn't even know it! The teenagers also decided to get Pastor Jimmy back for his competitiveness at the basketball game the first day. We attacked him with paint.

After the school/church, we drove about 15 minutes to another feeding center to do a VBS Program. The children there were so enthusiastic that we were there,and alot of us were able to communicate with them easily. Those of us that don't speak much Spanish are really catching on.

During our downtime before dinner, we all relaxed by the pool and prepared for Wednesday's VBS craft. We glued together over 400 popsicle sticks and cut about 600 yards of yarn for our God's Eyes craft. For dinner, we had pizza from a local pizzera Giorgio's. Immediately after dinner a bunch of us headed to the soccer fields to play a team of youth aged 17-25. We never decided on a team name but it was either: Gringo,JesusCristo,USA or MorningStar. The team was: Paul,Jimmy,MaryAnn,Sarah,Christiane,Kailey,Paige,Todd,Walt and Seth. We lost, but we didn't necessarily get our butts kicked. About halfway through the game is when we really go into it. We probably scored about 6 goals, and the Guatemalans scored at least 13.



And we finally ended our day with some much needed, and well earned sleep.