Guatemala: Wrap-Up!

Well the team is back safe and sound in Abbotsford after departing Tizate at a crisp and brisk 4am Friday morning (Mar. 12).  The night before we hosted a bar-b-q with GSO for all the families who hosted us during our stay, and our drime/drama team performed 3…yes 3 drimes (kuddos guys for being so willing and available to minister!!) to approx. 50 people.  It was quite the unique time of meal prep, as a crew made homemade tortillas, and another crew prepped chicken, salsa and lemonade.  I had the daunting task of manning the charcoal barrel bar-b-q, and I think we set a new record of 3 hours to cook chicken…thank the Lord for Ana and Mari who came to the rescue mid-way through!

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Guatemala: Day 10

hola! me nombre is Tessa. I think some of you know me.

hey so me and my freaking awesome roommate, Valeria (aka. V-dawg, V-digs, V-swizzle, V-slice), were supposed to blog on Wednesday, but we thought we were set for Thursday. but by the team Thursday came around, we had 0 time to blog….there was a lot of packing and other things to do.

so some of you are probably asking why I’m blogging if our trip is over? well…I just felt like it. I thought I’d do some sort of summary or something about the trip. if nobody reads this, that’s fine. I just like to write things.

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Guatemala: Day 9

The kids in the school run by Global Shore here in Guatemala learn a new memory verse each week and this week’s is Psalm 5:11:

“Alégrense los que buscan tu protección; canten siempre de alegría porque tú los proteges.  Los que te aman, se alegran por causa tuya”

“But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy.  Spread your protection over them that those who love your name rejoice in you”.

Today my roomies, Kourtney and Chantelle, and I had the fulfilling task of working construction in the morning.  Global Shore is building a new school to accommodate more grades and we have the privilege of helping them reach their finish deadline of January 2011.  The location of the new school is on the top of a hill (read: mountain) with an incredible view of the surrounding hills and mountains and almost no shade.

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Guatemala: Day 8

Okay. Blog number two from Dominique and Amelia. It’s extremely hot today; it’s close to 30 degrees. School started again yesterday, so we started the day off with devotionals with the kids. They are the most amazing inspiration. Then we had some personal prayer time. After that we split into our smaller work teams. Dominique was in prayer and I got to do the drime. We actually made a drime to show the gospel message. It is extremely powerful and hopefully everyone will be able to see it! The V.B.S was really difficult because some of our team is sick. Isabella has a sore throat and Nic is feeling a little ill along with Daniel. We’re dropping like flies (of which there are a lot of) so we need prayer. Wait, yes there’s the prayer! We didn’t really do much so I have no idea what to write. We had a good team time, we really bonded. The prayer is amazing. We all really get along, which is just such a blessing. I really have no clue what else to talk about.

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Guatemala: Day 7

Meow (Ola) from Guatemala!

Hey Northview, it’s Nicky Wilson…how are you? Are you doing alright without me? I’m having a pretty crazy experience down here…thanks for asking. It’s been a huge challenge for me I honestly didn’t think it would be this hard. I got really really really sick on Tuesday and had explosive fiery liquid coming out of every hole in my body (bad image). After that I couldn’t really eat for 4 days, just the smell of food was making me sick, I felt so bad because I thought my host mom thought it was her cooking. I’m feeling much better now, its ruined Mexican food for me but whatever, anything for Jesus:D.

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