Day 5- WOW! What an amazing day!

Widow’s house complete today!

Widow’s new stove that will provide heat, and she can cook with it!

Widow with one of her daughters on her new bed (her 10 year old son will sleep with her)

A typical Guatemalan home……we are sooooooooo blessed! (Too blessed???)

One of the volcanos on the way home with a cloud hanging over it

mariache band playing for us at dinner

Mark and Stu with the mariache band!

Byron and Alfonso on the wall outside the boys’ house

Stu, Roxy and Dale painting outside

Nathan, Rayann, and Tristan painting outside the widow’s house

Matt painting inside the widow’s house

The widow cooking in her kitchen with her family

Jon and Brett with Nelson (one of the orphans who has helped the men this week)

Wow! Words can’t describe our day today! We worked hard today, arriving at the orphanage early to make sure we finished the widow’s house and various projects. The clinic was extremely busy today- it seems the villagers decided today they needed medical, dental and eye care! We ate our lunch in the clinic so that we could take all of the people that came. Very good day. At 12:30 we had our party with the kids, they came and we were able to hug on them and love them. Then they sang for us and Ivan told some of their stories. Incredible the pits they have been brought out of and yet they are all so happy. Ivan said it usually takes about 30 days from when they get there to smile, because it takes that long for them to realize no one is going to hurt them or abuse them again! They are all so full of love- it’s great. Then they had a pinata, and then the group traveled to the widow’s house to give her her bed, table and stove. It’s such a testimony how greatful these people are, especially for a house the size of our bedrooms in the states! It was a very moving moment for all of us!

When we came back Lidia (the hotel owner) out-did herself! She had candle-light dinner, lasagna, salad, potato soup, and desert. As we were all eating, a mariache band came and played music for us! It was really neat. Then Lidia got a karaoke machine out and sang for us, as well as Roxy, Chad, Dale, Nathan, and Mark. It was a blast. Then we just discussed our thoughts of the day and week. Most of us decided it is so much to take in- we will be processing it all over the next couple of weeks! I believe we are all looking forward to coming home, and will be coming home changed. These missions trips will do that to a person! We have just all bonded so closely, we are sad to leave each other, but looking forward to our next trip, and hopefully many of you will be able to come too!

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