“All Night… All Day…Angels watching over me my Lord….”
Friday morning 6am… until Saturday night at 9:30pm I was awake, other than a 20 minute nap and about 2 hours of dozing in a van! But, it was totally worth it. J Here’s what my almost 40 hour day looked like:
In the early afternoon, we finished what we could do and then headed back out to Carol and Forrest’s workshop with their ministry partners, Jeremy and Patrick. We took the four cement water filter bases out of the molds and set them out to dry. Cleaning the molds was probably the hardest job we had that afternoon! They take a lot of care to keep the steel molds from rusting.
It’s funny how each of us who’ve served at Casa Jackson say we love all the babies… but there’s always one in particular that we are totally in love with that we claim as our own! My last visit there will be horribly difficult! It’s been such a blessing to serve the Lord through taking care of these babies. 🙂
This is what working a 12 hour night shift does to you. 🙂
Once we got back to the hostel, we turned around and left at 7:30am Saturday morning for Panajachel! Lake Atitlán is just called “the Lake” to people from the southern half of Guatemala, since is the largest in the region. The culture there is unlike anywhere else, so on our free day most of us decided it would be a fun trip!
Melina and I at Lake Atitlan!
So, we decided to cross this river near the lake to see how the natives enjoyed their time at the lake… then we realized the river was actually sewege, and it smelled pretty bad. But… that didn´t stop us! We trekked across it, and I´m so glad we did! The Mayan-Guatemalan families were beautiful! It was awesome to watch them just enjoying time at the lake, having picnics, cooking tortillas, swimming in the lake, etc. We even saw a church service, and they were getting ready to baptize someone in the lake!
Team Ekklesia Epikos is serving there this month, so we got to visit their worksite where they just finished a house building project! I’m so excited for all that God is doing in each of our Squad’s teams this month!
The van ride is up down, and around mountains…. and it made for the worst attempt to sleep in a car ever! The way to the lake I didn’t get much sleep at all, but I was so out of it on the way home that I completely passed out for about 2 hours! When we got back to the hostel, I literally walked up the stairs to our room, crawled into my sleeping bag liner and slept like a rock for 10 hours.
And … that’s my 40 hour day.
