I am in Guatemala! I’m sure y’all are wondering what I’ve been doing (I’m totally sure you were wondering. Even if you weren’t, you were.). But we haven’t really done a lot of ministry yet. I teach English on Tuesdays and Thursdays with five other people in San Lucas, and alternate between construction and working at an orphanage for children with cerebral palsy on other days. There is a group of people helping with the organization and marketing for a Fútbol tournament that we’re having,
I’m actually more proficient at speaking Spanish than I’d thought. Hurray for high school! For real though, it’s kind of cool. I can actually have conversations with the locals who don’t speak any English.
Friday nights there is a small group bible study that comes to our house and on Saturdays a group of Guatemalans from our host Luis’s ministry, Nueva Generacion, who are going on missions trip to Honduras come over and a group of six of us, myself included, are mentoring them on fundraising for missions work.
However, since today was Guatemala’s Independence Day, we didn’t go to our ministry sites. Instead, we went to the center of Antigua and watched the bands in the parade. It was crazy. However, on the bright side, I’m actually fairly tall in Guatemala (this may be come as a surprise to all of you who are taller than me, because that’s pretty much all of you.), so I was able to see over the heads of the people in the crowds. It was an exciting first.
Anyways, I’m posting this today because I’m going on a media fast for the next week. So if I don’t respond to you, don’t panic.
Adiós mis amores,
-Sam
