Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Well....Just two days remaining in our mission trip to Peru this year and I can feel some of the sadness sneaking into my heart. I guess I kind of expected it to happen.

This was acutally the first day I have seen Annita. She has apparently been in the jungle working. If I got the story right she is working to buy wood so that she can start her own business. It was so good to see her today. I also got a chance to talk to Carolina for a bit too! She is doing well in school and is learning english. She says she doesn´t like it very much! I also got a chance to talk to Annita´s other daughter Rosa and Ruth! They are both living in Argentina and have started a church! I believe this mission is making a big difference.

Our day included the delivery of five more gifts to some of the women that host groups. Some are hosting story groups for the children and the youth and others host groups for adults. Each one of them is eager to continue to learn and then to start new groups placing others in charge of teaching.

This afternoon the ladies of our group met with about 40 women from the barrio and Tori Reef gave her testimony and then gave a little talk about prayer. We had Danell buy 40 wooden boxes for making prayer boxes and then we had the women painted them. They will use them to write they´re prayers out on a piece of paper. They idea is to put their papers in the box and from time to time look back and see how God works in their lives.

Dan and I continued doing some construction work this afternoon. The school building that we worked on last year is almost done. We have put two more walls up and started drywalling. They will likely put the roof on it once we are gone.

Tomorrow will no doubt be a very exciting day. We are going to have some fun with some of the young kids late in the morning and the tomorrow night we are going to have a party for the teen group. We are going to play some games, eat and Kris is going to talk about what it means to be a young person, a Christian and the responisbility they have and ability the have to change their directions. Should be an amazing night!

God Bless!
Mitch