Sunday

Hello friends back in the US!  We are all excited about our arrival and have already had two fabulous days!

Sunday morning we traveled to Otoxha to join in prayer with our friends as they sang and worshiped together.  Christy,Mark and Gary checked out the water supply to see what is needed to make it completely functional.  Vernon, Ken and Gary checked out the floor of the church for our tile project.  We then split up and went to four different homes for lunch.  We were all served chicken caldo and flour tortillas. 

We then drove back and visited our "summer villages:  Santa Cruz, Santa Elena, and Pueblo Viejo.  We saw the kitchen in the school at Pueblo Viejo which was funded by All Saints (thank you for eating spaghetti!). 

We invited Esteban, Rosa, and Emaya to join us to our delicious dinner prepared by our friends at the convent.  The most recent spaghetti fundraiser was to help Emaya with some much needed surgery.  Emaya is a wonderful little girl of nine.  Absolutely charming.

Mark brought the vocation chalice from All Saints and has shared it with our team to invite communal prayer to strengthen all of our vocations; most especially to pray for priestly vocations.

We have had some amazing weather and are prepared for a busy first day in our villages.  We are all looking forward to reacquainting ourselves with the children and adults who have been so generous in sharing their village life with us.