I’ve been in Guatemala since the 12th and have already experienced so many things. We took a long ride to the base we are staying at and on the way as I was looking out the window I saw a land I was unfamiliar with. Guatemala being the first country I ever travel to I was not sure what what to expect but the longer I’m here even though I miss my home in the U.S. Guatemala is feeling like home too. Some of the people here treat you like family before they even know your name. On the 15th was Guatemala Independence Day and as they were getting ready for the holiday, the night before they would drive by with their flag on their car or run holding a torch and they have a tradition that the people on the side of the road would throw water at them as they ran by and they would throw some back and it was really cool that we got to celebrate their independence with them to celebrate as one. The 18th was our first day of ministry, my team and I walked a mile to our ministry host home in llanos and showed us how to help her in her farm to pull the leafs off the corn and how to clean the pigpen after the farm work was finished for the day we went around door to door asking people if we can pray for them which 90% of the people said yes. We went into this one home with a mother who had two sons and one of the boys Lyo has disabilities and I was the person who lead in prayer over their family which was a honor and as I was praying I felt this peace come over their home. The 19th was our first day teaching English to people in llanos. Some my team were teaching the adults some verbs and nouns and my other team mates and I were teaching the children ages 4-12. numbers, the alphabet, and how to say “hello my name is” the children picked up on everything pretty fast and I loved that they are just so excited to learn.
