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• The people of La Lolita

  Today some of the people of the church in La Lolita came to the seminary for a going away/thank you reunion type of a get-to-gether. It was great to see not only the little kids but also the adults get excited about coloring with crayons on pages torn Read More... Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 9:38 PM by Laura Jackson | 0 Comments

• New Guatemala videos and pics

  We just posted some more updated pictures to go along with our descriptions of recent events on the Summer Service trip. Here are four more videos that might give you more of a feel for the places. First there is the village of El Chico that Aaron blogged Read More... Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 6:09 PM by Michael Ludwig | 1 Comments Filed under: Summer Service Video

• interesting facts

  so here are just a coupla facts i have found out, from being a contractor and as ben and renee pointed out maybe the tallist person in guatemala. you take things for granted back home like running up steps but here the steps don't have to be a certin Read More... Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 9:28 AM by dehan | 0 Comments

• In the kitchen...

  Thursday June 28 we traveled to a church in Lolita. The church was providing us lunch for the day. As is common here in Guatemala lunch was not quite ready when we arrived. So we worked on getting wood for the chicken coop and then we were able to go Read More... Posted Sunday, July 01, 2007 11:47 PM by Michael Ludwig | 0 Comments

• Stopped on the road...

  Hola, As Aaron mentioned, we've had a pretty eventful week. It was also capped off by a Saturday that we will never forget. For the past two days we had been driving to the little town of La Lolita in the morning, down a bumpy dirt road for about 45 minutes Read More... Posted Sunday, July 01, 2007 10:28 PM by Michael Ludwig | 1 Comments

• Guatemala Team News

  We want to notify the conference family that the Summer Service team was stopped on the road and robbed Saturday morning. Everyone is fine and that is the most important thing. Cell phones, cameras, rings, watches and backpacks (with journals) were stolen, Read More... Posted Sunday, July 01, 2007 10:14 PM by Andrew Dawson | 0 Comments Filed under: Summer Service, announcement, Guatemala, 2007, mission

• Making Tortillas

  Wednesday night, we had the opportunity to attempt to make tortillas with the women at Juanna's house. First, they washed the corn, then they ground it to a powder. After that, they added water, and you have at the entire making round disks. They make Read More... Posted Saturday, June 30, 2007 11:27 PM by spudrasnick | 1 Comments

• When Nature Calls...

  The other night when we stayed at Juana's house the bathroom was located outside...I made sure that I had used the facilities before turning in for the night. My goal was not to have to go outside during the middle of the night because I did not want Read More... Posted Saturday, June 30, 2007 10:20 PM by LeAnn H | 0 Comments

• Juana's House

  On Wednesday we took a day off from working in the chicken coups. We went to a seminar that talked about the production of biodisel fuel. I found it pretty interesting but I'm not so sure it resonated with many of the Guatemalans in attendance. After Read More... Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 9:07 PM by reneel | 2 Comments

• Hello everybody

  This is our 19th day in Guatemala and our 3rd day working on the chicken coup. We have had an eventful week down here at the coast. The most eventful day was Sunday the 24th (my birthday) when we went to visit the island El Chico. That day blew me away. Read More... Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 8:41 PM by Aaron Cummings | 1 Comments

• Let it Rain

  Hey everyone. This is Benjamin and it is 5:45 on friday evening. We just returned home from working all day on our chicken coup. Today at the village we were all given straw hats by the owner of the land where we're working and they had our names on them. Read More... Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 7:41 PM by leoneRMU | 1 Comments

• prayer requests

  Please continue to keep our truck in your prayers. It was fixed, but has a hot spot that our in-team mechanics (as I stated many times, this is a very diverse and talented team) seem to think is a sticky valve. We will see what can be done with it. It Read More... Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 5:28 PM by rachelludwig | 0 Comments

• changes

  I have noticed many changes over the five years since I lived here. First the roads are greatly improved. Many places are newly paved and are going to 2 lane roads. (Well, especially in the north.) Of course that means a lot of the roads are under construction Read More... Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 5:21 PM by rachelludwig | 0 Comments

• Visiting El Chico

  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 Read More... Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 5:17 PM by rachelludwig | 0 Comments

• Visit with family

  I recently had the opportunity to go back and see my Guatemalan family, where I lived for a year, It was wonderful and felt a lot like home. The girls, now about 10 years old came running up to me with flowers. I used to go up in the mountains and pick Read More... Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 5:14 PM by rachelludwig | 0 Comments