So this week we went back to the town where we helped with VBS the first week, but this week involved much less time with beautiful children and more time with…rocks.
And well, there really aren’t a whole lot of pictures of the past couple days…mostly because we were all shoveling rocks, but I’m putting up a few that I stole from Jessica’s camera.
Our team mixing paint, by hand.
It was such a joy to be back at our first ministry site, to continue to serve them, and to help the community there. We helped to clean up, paint, and haul random construction rubble from the house where we stayed the first week we were there. They are adding two additional bathrooms as well as a new kitchen so that future missionaries can have everything they need to stay and serve the Tanguarin community. It was quite the interesting experience overall, not including the about 40 billion bug bites we all got, gross. Anywho, we painted the outer wall that surrounds the house white, shoveled a medium sized pile of dirt and another medium sized pile of rocks from outside the wall to inside the wall, and that was just the first afternoon! On the second day we woke up, had some awesome cereal Jess and I discovered called Arroz Crocante( the vanilla flavor is totes the best), and continued with our work. We shoveled some debris from inside the house, swept every room about 38 times, put the beds back together, and mopped.
This all with the help of our dear friends Diego and Angie! These have got to be some of the sweetest, most helpful gorgeous little children ever. Diego painted with us, and to be honest, probably did a better job than we did. Then Angie helped Linsey to pull weeds, and pick up the small bits of construction rubble scattered about the yard.
Our little Angie, she is so so precious!
Lins and I getting showed up by Diego there in the background, that little boy did some work!!
Jess and I finished the day by hanging out with Angie and Diego in her sweet double nest hammock (pics to be added later) and had a tiny little bit of a nap, or as I told Angie, a SIESTA FIESTA!! Haha. Overall it was a great time, and we are so glad we were able to return there and help out some more.
And now we head to the jungles of Peru! We will be staying in a fairly large city, but its pretty far from anything else. Pretty much all we know is that we are staying with a couple, in a house, and they don’t speak English (Oh Lord, help me learn this language more quickly!). Not sure about the internet situation there, so this may be the last blog I post for awhile. We will be doing construction of some sort or other, and will need a lot of bug spray…other than that we don’t know much. Pray for my team as we head out on Monday to take a 17 hour bus ride to Lima, Peru and then another 18 hour bus ride to Pacallpa, Peru, eek. Talk to ya lata!
Thanks for reading,
Lindsey
