Today, Sunday, we drove to the edge of Guatemala. Then we took a boat across the lagoon / ocean to get to an island called El Chico. The people are very friendly. They were a great encouragement to the team. One of the people told me that everyone from the group was able to say something to the people in Spanish. They said usually there is one maybe two people in the group that can translate, but in our group everyone could say something. That was very encouraging after all the hard work that we put in at the school last week.
If you don't know, everyone studied one on one with a teacher last week for 5 hours a day. Then we were in different houses, sometimes doubled up with our host families. It was a challenging week in many ways.
So we got there, the people didn't know that we were coming, but they were so open and had such a servants heart. They said, we are here to serve you. They had a fisherman (that is their occupation) give them some fish that was then cooked for us while we were in the ocean swimming.
Our prayer this AM was for everyone to have a special friend to create a relationship with. It was so neat watching the answer to prayer as the group walked to the oceanfront, because everyone had a partner they were talking to, or else a couple of small children. They are so full of God's love. They were also very encouraged by our visit.
One girl stayed on our boat as it pulled away and then once in deep water she jumped in and continue swimming after the group.
Well, Monday we are off to learn about chicken coups. We are going to build something similar to the same type of chicken coup that another guy has. He supposedly raises 20,000 chickens a month for meat.