Captured!

Today was a fantastic day at school! Along with Megan and Anna-Kate, I taught the 5th, 6th, and 7th graders. We reviewed family members and numbers to 100. We played hangman, a card game, and raced to the correct number written in chalk on the ground. With the use of skittles I taught the kids how to say "My favorite color is..." The kids are so smart and so eager to learn and impress us Gringos (white people) with their English! The seventh grade class is my favorite. Today we laughed the entire time as we played a game similar to slap jack reviewing numbers!

Last week the first group of the summer arrived. We painted the school. This week my sister, Emilie, is here with the high school group from Savannah Christian Church. Emilie being here is such a blessing. I needed a little piece of home! I love being able to share my life here with her and watch her love on the kids here.

Emilie's group is building a fence around the soccer field in Curia and doing a sports themed VBS everyday.

On Saturday Joanna and Allison came over and we made, I mean burnt, brownies. We started playing a game similar to Scattergories and were having so much fun that we forget about the brownies, but I would trade burnt brownies for laughing with those girls any day!

Yesterday was a huge day here! Five people in the church were baptized. Two of our cooks, Marjorie and Gladys, were baptized. Gladys' husband, Isidro, and two others were also baptized. We had a huge celebration with cake and games as we welcomed them into God's family!

God is capturing the hearts of the people here!