Pictionary in Spanish

Thursday September, 18, 2008

We worked on the wall in Mogote again today and after a little rainstorm, and some kids playing and showering in the gutter runoff from the church, it was Darwin’s idea to bring some kids with us. So we brought three kids home to Amber’s house just to hang out till we went back for church. They were some kids from the family that has twelve kids, two bothers, Alan-9, Selvin-8, and William-6 who is their nephew, all put on their shoes and climbed in the back of the truck with us.

We had some macaroni and cheese for lunch, played some games, and watched Bob Esponja (Sponge Bob) on TV. Will showed them his Rosetta Stone Spanish language learning program and they loved figuring out which picture went with the words on the screen. Then we played some Pictionary Junior in Spanish, that was pretty interesting and usually ended in just making up your own picture and letting everyone guess what you were drawing despite what the card said, which was still fun. Then after a little mishap with getting locked out of our room without a key, (Will was able to pick the lock thankfully! ( I knew I married a man with skills, but I didn’t know he had this one up his sleeve!)) we walked to the mall for some ice cream cones and let the kids go crazy in the play place in the food court. It was cool to see them playing and waving to us every 3 or 4 minutes while Will and I sat and watched and waved back smiling.

We headed back up to Mogote for Wednesday night church. The lesson was from a young man in the church that spoke from 1 Peter 4, a chapter on living for God. He talked about people in our lives that we looked up to so much we wanted to imitate, and then how we should be imitators of Jesus so that others are able to see him in us, which sometimes includes being ridiculed or questioned for not joining in with the world’s evil desires. It was a great lesson and always interesting to hear the bible from another culture’s perspective and listening to the things that they have to deal with here as Christians.