Well here I am in Guatemala – very different from El Salvador. It’s high up and it’s cold, in the mountains. First, we went to Antigua for debrief. Antigua is gorgeous.
This volcano erupted the other day and we got ash all the way in Xenacoj – where our ministry site is.
This is the view from el Cerro de la cruz in Antigua– the hill of the cross. Everywhere you turn, it looks like a postcard.
After Antigua, we came here to Xenacoj – a small Mayan village of about 15,000 in the mountains. The elevation is about 5,000 feet in Antigua and about 6,500 in Xenacoj. Here’s a short summary of my adventures so far in Xenacoj, more details to come later:
- Drinking fresh goat’s milk
- Meeting 2 huskies in the space of 15 minutes
- Riding in the back of a truck through the mountains – and filming it
- Killing, plucking, gutting, quartering, and eating a chicken
- Going to the mill house to grind corn
- Meeting a 91-year-old widow and her daughter and grandson
- Feeding children at several schools and drawing pictures for them
- Being jealous of all the people riding horses alongside the road
- Going to a widow’s funeral and singing at the wake
- Becoming the new logistics co-leader
- Cooking pepian
More stories to come!
*Update – $1000 away from being fully funded! Thank you!*
