Hola amigos y familia,
Today was not the greatest day as far as health goes. Garin, Gaby, and Jolisa all stayed at the hotel for most of the day with what we think is a stomach bug. We started off the day with another great breakfast with Pastor Luis and his church. Eggs, fruit, tortillas and black beans. Yum! After breakfast, team Vinke joined us for our sports camp at the school down the street from the church in San Juan. We had a great time, and really got to enjoy loving on the kids. Before we left, the principal thanked us for being able to spend time with the kids this week and expressed her gratitude for always having smiles on our faces and leaving the kids with smiles on theirs. It was truly a God moment. After she finished thanking us, we felt led to leave the soccer balls and volleyballs with the children. It was cool to be able to leave them with something to remember us by, other than the memories they would have of us playing with them.
We left the school and walked back to the church for lunch and found Garin on one of the benches asleep. Tony´s wife took him and Stacy back to the hotel for the rest of the day. (Because he was not feeling well, I was forced to take over the blog writing for the night.. =P Although he is sitting next to me right now.) After a lunch of tuna sandwiches and peanut butter sandwiches, we hopped on the bus to San Pedro. We went to the same church that we did the VBS at on Tuesday. We started off singing ¨En mi corazon¨and then sang ¨Gloria a dios¨with the kids. It gives me so much joy every time because they get so into the songs! It´s so cute! Garrick and Gabe told the story of Jesus healing the paralytic as our bible story and did a fantastic job relating how Christ is our Savior. After we played with them for a little while, we gathered them back in a group and explained to them about Jesus washing his disciples feet and how much love He showed in doing so. We then asked them if we could wash theirs and to stand in line if they wanted us to do that for them. It was such a humbling act and most of the children asked questions about why we were doing it, but all of them were extremely grateful. All of them were smiling. It was very hard to say bye this time because we knew we weren´t coming back, at least not on this trip (wink wink)!
Dinner was fantastico! We had rice and beef tips with vegetables along with pineapple and mangos. Garin felt well enough to join us for dinner, but Gaby and Jolisa (and a few people from the other teams) stayed at the hotel. We had a very eventful day and besides half the team being sick, God had His hands over us and we were able to push through. Very grateful for that.
Tomorrow we are going shopping! It´s going to be tons of fun! We love you guys, and we are asking for healing over our team.. Gracias and we will see you soon!
-Shawna
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