Last day, return to reality
February 23, 2009
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- Ahhhh…back in the states!
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- Loading the bus :(
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- Tristin and Denise with the parrot at the hotel
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- Kristen and Michelle
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- Mark and Kathy
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- Chad and Roxy at breakfast our last morning
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- The volcano gave us an amazing show as we were loading the bus to leave the hotel!
Saturday we left the hotel at 9:30 am, went to the airport, and left the beautiful country of Guatemala. It was extremely hard to leave all of the wonderful people we met, the wonderful people so thankful and giving. Our bus driver, David, is also the house father for the boys house. He and his wife are wonderful people, and they have a very big job! Please pray for him and his family.
We arrived in Madison, SD at 1:30 am, and then the Pierre and Mitchell teams departed to travel on to their homes (another 1 hour for Mitchell and 3 hours for Pierre!). It was difficult to say goodbye to these wonderful team members we had spent the whole week with. We have many new friends and brothers and sisters in Christ!
We hope and pray some day you will be able to take a mission trip, get out of our “bubble” in the US, and see how most of the world really lives. It is an eye opening experience! And what an amazing trip for teens and kids- to help them realize how blessed they are! It really helps change your focus from “ME” to others- switch from materialism to serving others. There is so much need in this world, but if we just do the little part God wants us to do, we will be so blessed!!
Thanks for checking our blog- we had 698 hits on Wednesday alone! It was great to keep all of you with us while we were down there! Until next year- Adios and God Bless!
