I got up early and started on some laundry. I didn’t have much to do, but when we have teams here, the cleaning ladies are busy washing towels and stuff for the team, so I want to get mine caught up before the team arrives.
The vans were leaving for the airport, so I grabbed a ride with Edmundo to drop me off at the haircutting place. It was nice to see my stylist. She asked me if I like to look like a boy, since I always get my hair cut so short. Lol I grabbed a taxi back to the team house in time for lunch.
Mike was teaching Pastor/Leader Training for our 4 churches and there were 11 people in attendance. This was great! (I teach the women leaders and children’s leaders on Mondays). This shows the amount of interest in learning and training that the Pastors and men of the church have in serving. We served lunch to them and then Mike finished the training. It was a great day!
I sent an email to someone possibly interested in coming to Nica to work with the children. I would love to have some help with the Children’s Ministry. We’ll see what God has planned for us!
I’ll report on the team on another post, but for this post, I’ll share what I got to do during the week.
I made some phone calls and sent some messages to let people know that the English Bible Study Group class would be repeated on Friday mornings, for those who cannot make it on Monday nights. I’ve set up a FB page for the group, too.
I chatted with Deanna, altered some pants for Lesly, sewed up 2 more aprons for the cooks, worked with Estefanie on translation notes for the WBSLT classes on Mondays, met with Carlos (in Spanish by myself, I might add), chatted with Richard on the team who makes lovely wood plaques, ran errands, prepped for classes, sent lots of communication to coming teams, practiced guitar, studied and helped with what I could to make the team’s visit go well.
We had ice cream a lot this week. The team worked long, hot days putting up trusses and a roof. They deserved the treat!
Going to the grocery store for the teams is fun, if you like long trips to the grocery store. We usually have to make 2 or 3 trips within the week, depending on the size of the team. Each of the 2 trips this week consisted of 4-5 grocery carts full. We will them up and park them until we are ready to check out. (Buying food for bigger teams will be more like getting 5-6 carts of food every 2 days). Our grocery store loves us!
I ran around with the team part of the time. I was glad to get to go to church with them. We split into 3 groups for church. I also got to escort a few of the guys to buy souvenirs for family. I took them to my favorite vendors, who usually give me a good discount. They took good care of my friends!
The team had worked very hard, especially after the first few days of frustrating problems and delays, and got the structure completed in time for the celebration service on Sunday afternoon. What fun! I was crying during part of the singing. It is so awesome to just be here where God is at work and to be a part of it is indescribable!
The team went out and did some Fiestas on Monday and then went to Suyapa for dinner. I had to teach my classes, so I stayed here at the team house. I got to spend some time with them in the evening and say goodbye.
Buster knew that they were leaving because of them packing their suitcases and staging them at the end of our covered porch. He walked around so sad with his head low. He even slept on top of their suitcases all night. I think he really liked having this ‘mens’ team.
They team left at 3:30am. I woke up to say goodbye. I went back to bed and slept until 9:30am! Wow! I woke up feeling great!
It was a great week!
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