Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Phase 10

It has been another wonderful day in Peru. We got up this morning and went to the market to buy some fresh fruit for breakfast. Henrik made Elli, Leah and I go and buy bananas and green beans, so it was a good opportunity to practice our Spanish. After breakfast we headed over to Cerropon for another morning of Vacation Bible School. The kids are really cute! We sang songs and had a lesson. It is very much like VBS in Canada. When we finished with the learning, all chaos happened, again, with children hanging, pulling, and chasing us in all directions. After VBS, we went home and changed into our work clothes. There were fresh homemade donuts, so we had a snack, and then left for our worksite in Virgin de la Paz. It was the first time that I have been back since we had our cameras stolen. We got there no problem and proceeded to get very dirty mixing mud with our hands and laying bricks. We were there for a few hours. Then we came home for lunch and had some time to shower and get cleaned up. In the late afternoon we went to the market to the place where all the thieves sell their stolen goods. We didn't get our cameras, but we met a few people who might have and idea of who has them, or knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows. It is all a game to them which is really sad. We met a girl from Belgium who had had the same thing happen to her. After the market, we came home and played Phase 10 the card game, which has become a very popular pass time for our team. We laughed a lot! We interrupted our game to have supper, and then had an early debrief and sang some songs. It has been a very good day for the most part.

Please continue to pray for our health and safety as we continue our work in Peru. Also pray that God's justice would be done, and that we would get our cameras, or even just memory cards back. Please pray for all of the people that we are working with, especially those who are interested in full time ministry. Pray that God would be glorified in all that we are doing here.

Thank you so much for your support, comments, encouragement and prayers!

Lindsay for Team Peru

2 comments:

Sara & Donna said...

Hi team.

Another lovely update, which I enjoyed as I drink my tea and wind down after a busy day.

It is a very rewarding feeling to know we can make a difference in peoples' lives by sharing the good news.

I talked to some people in Saskatoon at work today and I guess they literally couldn't see across the street because of snow. I hope we don't get that!

Keep up the good work. God bless

Love Donna and Sara

Margot said...

Good morning Team Peru & Lins... I'm looking forward to your next update. I hope Thurs. was a good day. Here's a good reason to be extra glad to be in the heat....brrrrrrrrrr it's -32 here this morning and I'll now see if cars will start. Thinking of you and keeping you in prayers, Mom