On Sunday morning, three teams (19 of us total) loaded up
all of our packs into a gloriously spacious bus and rode the 9 hours it takes
to get from Lake Atitlan
to San Salvador.
We crossed the El Salvador
border sometime in the mid afternoon and finally got to San Salvador around 5 p.m. From the place
where our bus dropped us off, unloaded our packs and put two teams in a van
headed to where Casey’s team is staying this month. Saying goodbye to Dan’s team was sad considering we spent so much time with them, but being alone is going to be so good this month. Here is LA and I getting ready to say bye for the month.
When we got to where Casey’s team is staying we unloaded
everything so that they could use the van for the other team. We waited there
from about 6:00 until 10 p.m. when we got our official ministry briefing and
found out what we were doing… ish…. From there in San Salvador, my team loaded our stuff back
up into the van and headed an hour and a half away to San Vicente, El Salvador. When we arrived the first thing they said was “welcome to the microwave” We thought they were kidding. They weren’t. This month is so different from last month as far as our living situation. The six of us girls are all in one room with five beds. So I am sharing a bed with another girl on my team. Our bed dips down in the middle so we snuggle a lot. Our house doesn’t have many windows in it so it is always hot inside with little to no breeze. Hence the name, Microwave. I don’t think I stopped sweating since we got her. Welcome to the REAL world race. I also finished hand washing half of my clothes a while ago and I am waiting for them to dry on the line so I can do the rest.
San Vicente is where we will be doing our ministry this month. We are also about 10 minutes away from two other world race teams on our squad, but we are enjoying the fact that we live alone. We are kind of doing a modge podge of ministries this month that will include going to schools and singing/doing skits, singing and doing skits in church, preaching, praying, encouraging the people in the church, loving the ministry contacts, and also sweating our butts off.
Yesterday we celebrated Valentines Day by hanging up little mailboxes with our names, exchanging names and having a secret valentine, and having heart shaped pancakes for breakfast and heart shaped beet salad for lunch.
Welcome to the heat of El Salvador!!
