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Dear friends, We began this blog in the summer of 2012 when our family was called to step "out" of our "normal" life as we lived it in Carrollton Texas and serve for 3 months at Housesofhope.org orphanage in Zacapa, Guatemala. A simple blog for our friends and family to stay in touch during our short journey. Since that season we have decided we will use this as a means to continue to log our journey, share our stories and create a platform to champion what inspires us. We hope you enjoy and pray that you are encouraged into action and deeper reflection on family and faith.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Typing with wil

(wil)
Yesterday a new girl came to campus.  Her name is Raina, it's the Spanish word for "queen".  Raina is a 11 year old girl who doesn't know how to read and has never set foot in a school.  (We will post a picture of her when we get one) But I think she is adapting well. She arrived during our church service and pastor German had all of the other house of hope kids line up and give her a hug. That was cool-I'm sure she had lots going on in her head.
We had our English class yesterday too.  We had all of the kids from the whole campus over at our house!  And they are all learning a lot of English.  I think the kids prefer to have English in our house anyway.

The BAM (business as missions) guys from our church came and spent their first night in house of hope too.  They were really hot last night they said.  They are going to be extremely busy while they are here and that's keeping my dad occupied for the time they are here.  They are meeting with local businesses and some government officials and learning about how business works here.  I am staying home with puking James today and Mom took Wade and Sarah into town with her to try and buy some fabric for the curtains.  You have to be careful in town today because there was an assassination in Zacapa last night and today the funeral starts - they start the funerals right away here because they don't embalm the bodies and with the heat . . . you can imagine.  Anyway, one of the top drug people was shot outside a tienda in the street.  So, today we were told to stay far away from the funeral tents and then tomorrow stay away from the people walking behind the body on the way to the cemetery because that's when some of the other drug people try and kill some of their opposition because they are sitting ducks at the funeral.  Sounds like this has happened before here. 

That is the big news for today plus soccer games and arm wrestling matches and welding bodega shelves.
They call all frogs and toads "sapos" here which actually translates as "toads".  Which is opposite of us.  We tend to call all frogs and toads "frogs".

A tree frog Wade and James caught


 
Cindy and Raul in an arm wrestling contest.



And that's all for today folks.
Type to you guys soon.
Wil
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