1/27/11
Thursday, the final day of work on the houses, was a little lighter day for us. We started the day with devotion led by Paula, who talked about keeping God as our focus throughout our days, not only when things are difficult, but also when things are going well. She read from the book of Psalms, chapter 127, which reads,
"Unless the Lord builds a house,
its builders labor over it in vain;
unless the Lord watches over a city,
the watchman stays alert in vain."
Electrical work and other finishing touches took place in the houses, and Nicole spent the morning cutting hair for several of the local ladies, kids, and Romiro. We took a trip to Maxi Bodega and picked up snack food in preparation for community movie night at the church, and spent quite a bit of time picking up trash around the church courtyard in anticipation of our event. Bible school was the story of the boy with the loaves and the fishes. We wanted to reinforce to the children that every one of us can help Jesus, if we give what we have with love in our hearts. To remind the children of the power that they have, we made necklaces with two fish beads and five other beads (representing the five loaves). They also made a service coupon offering to help a family member or friend. We ended with parachutes and balls, of course, and we were sad that it was our last day of class. Kids are hard to count, as they are always in motion, but we are pretty sure there were more than seventy kids!
After dinner at the hotel, we packed up and headed back to El Maguey for movie night! We showed our Guatemala 2010 video - a big hit! - and then the feature film, Toy Story. It was fun for us gringos to see the familiar film in Spanish, and the community turned out for the film. More than 100 people packed the church, and based on the applause at the end, I think they all enjoyed the movie. By the way, 100 people out of a town of 900 was pretty great, don't you think?
