The group accomplished some really neat things while they were here. We had two carnivals, one in Mogote, and one in Izopo. In Mogote we have talking about the "Carnival of Prizes" for months now, getting the kids excited about it, and about coming to bible class. They had to come to bible class 5 times in the last 3 months to be able to attend. It was a huge success and so intricately planned with a cake walk, digging for burried treasure, throwing games, and a bounce house. It was so much fun for the kids to have something so special just for them. We all had a blast.
The group also built 10 houses, poured 32 bags of concrete in Mogote, built a pipe system in the creek at Baxter, held 2 carnivals, 2 medical clinics, and did more than I'm sure I even know about. It was such a neat group, we love them.
In Mogote the next project is a baptistry. The church is in great need of a baptistry. Right now if someone decides to get baptized they have to go down to the river rich is about a 20 minute car ride, they can't go at night, and only as many people as can fit in the truck can go to witness it. The neatest thing about this new project though is that each church member is contributing by bringing bricks to church each service. They bring as many as they can afford, usually just 2-3 bricks, but it is so neat to me that they are taking a stake in building it. It is also a sacrifice for most of them to buy bricks. I am learning more and more from the people in Mogote, they are such a blessing to me and I am honored to get to work with them.
Things are going well. We are still looking for a truck and hope we may be close to finding a good one. The people at the stadium continue to open up to us. Last night we all received bracelets from Hector which he would normally try to sell to make a little bit of money. Excercise class with the ladies at church is going really well, we now have an aerobic video in Spanish, which has made it much easier for everyone to follow, and we also have a few more pairs of tennis shoes from the group for the ladies to wear.
2 comments:
Do you guys have a big need for things like tennis shoes? I have a thrift store up the street where I can get shoes for about $2 each, and I could send a box via sea mail pretty cheaply. Actually it would probably be easy to get our church involved donating things like that if you guys could use them. Let me know.
That is a precious picture of the man and kids bringing bricks.
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