The Sin Chair

This is us practicing our skit before we performed it today. The chair at first says "don't touch" and then at the end it says "sin". Rita comes in first, then me, then Karen, then Gerson is the little boy who sits down in the chair, Norma is the one who walks in hesitating to take the chair, Cristofer is the one pulling on me and showing his muscles, and Marinella is the one who walks in with the bible and is reading. Sin traps man in a prison that separates him from God. Then deceives him into believing there is no escape. Salvation sets men free from that prison reuniting them with God. Not all choose salvation. Joshua 25:15- "But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve....." We have had a great time practicing. Hopefully we can all keep a straight face while we are preforming! I will let you all know how it goes.

Today we went to the other church to finally do our skit. We watched a video about Joseph and then we sang songs and played duck, duck, goose with the people there. All the people were very friendly and welcoming. The skit went really well and the kids did great. I met a little baby named Amy today...it was very exciting since that isn't a spanish name! lol It was cool because I got to really talk with Norma. She is 11 or 12 I think. We had a great time laughing and talking even though I don't speak spanish. lol I gave her one of the rings I was wearing because she really liked it. Her smile was priceless! After the skit, Kevin, Rita, Karen and I went into the market to buy lice killing stuff. We then went and took some mattresses from the kids to get the lice off of them. It wasn't as bad as taking the clothes but I still felt bad. Then me and the girls watched Griffin and Phenix...sp? It was a really good movie!

Picture Time!

This picture of the chicken is the picture I promised you awhile ago. This is actually one of the better ones. lol

The little girl is Ruth. So so sweet!

The older lady was my roomie for a week. Her name is Emma and she is from Canada. This lady is the perfect example as walking as Jesus did!

Friday

Today we woke up and finished up with some of the kids towels. We then headed to Trujillo (a near by city that is like a mini Lima). We were on a hunt for all of the things we needed to get rid of all the lice but didn't have much luck. We did however eat at a papa john's that was amazing!!! When we were ording a lady came up to us and said I hear you speak English. We started talking and she is a missionary there in Trujillo. She lives there 10 months out of the year. She started a ministrey to help abused women and children. It was really neat to see how God had us cross paths. Even if it was just so I could pray for her and her ministry. We had a lot of time to kill before r bus so we went to go see Harry Potter. I was so excited! It was kind of frustrating at first because they spoke spanish....and I only knew like 3 or 4 words. lol I read the book though so that helped. It was still fun! Good thing my dad is going to take me to see it in English when I get home!! When we got home I played games outside with the kids until it got dark. Then we rehearsed the skit we are preforming tmro. The kids are so cute with it. I recorded one of our practices....it is a really bad video job but still cute. You all will have to see it! Then I watched TV with the kids for awhile. Good thing Maria (one of the older girls) was there. She changed the channel anytime anything wasn't PG came on. lol

He Must Become Greater- I must become Less

As I was laying in bed last night, laying with no sheets, blanket, or pillow on my bed (due to my roomie having lice. lol) I was thinking about how blessed I am to have everything God has givin me. There are so many people here who have nothing and are out sleeping on the streets. Everyday when I am at home I am worried about my own life. It is about what I need to get done for the day. Here it is different. It is hard to explain. I was just thinking about how real those words.....God must become greater and I must become less. How big is my God and how small am I. God put me here on this earth to serve him and to do that it needs to be all about it.
Today Karen, Rita, and I were in charge of getting rid of the lice in the whole compund. Way easier said then done. There is so much to think of and with 40 kids and a unique set of supplies. It was sp much easier back home when we had to do this at my daycare. We went to the market and priced supplies and had a meeting with all the head people here to figure out the best way to work things. Rita and I went in and took 2 pairs of clothes and a towel from each child to seal in bags for 2 days to kill the lice. I felt like the grinch. It was horrible! Some of the kids didn't want to give up there clothes. After assuring them they would get them back in a couple days they finally gave them up.
I also scrubbed down desks in one of the classrooms in the school. One girl had a hannah montana sticker on her desk that I scrubbed at forever. I thought is was so funny that they know who she is! lol
After that I watched Kevin and some of the younger kids play duck duck goose and then headed to missionary night. We had some good omlets. To make these we put eggs and ingredients in a zip lock bag and put it in a pan of boiling water for awhile. Who knew that would make omlets.
Then Rita, Karen, and I, and 4 kids practiced a skit that we are going to preform on Saturday at one of the churchs here.
Now we are boiling hot water to wash some of the kids towels to kill the lice. I just got my head sprayed with vinegar. I can honestly say that I have never done that before. Another wierd thing- Kevin, Rita, Karen and I were walking back from the market when I saw someone walking a huge hog.....just like a dog. Right down the road we always take. It stopped to pee....which leads me to another good point- when walking in Peru never step on dark spots in the sand!
Good night all! Love you from Peru!

Lice- No Bueno :(

This morning started off very slow and relaxing. We went to go have lunch with the kids but they ate early so we missed out. Rita, Karen, and I stayed and painted all of the girl's nails! It was a lot of fun! They were all so excited! It blew my mind how patient and thoughtful they all were! They took turns waiting for us to paint their nails and even shared colors with no fighting! Then we played a game of slap jacks with the boys. After that we went back to our house and had lunch. After lunch Rita and I went and played basketball with the boys. (Gerson, Yohnson, yowell, and Christopher) It was girls verse boys. We were doing pretty good until Kevin came along. lol After that Rita and I went to the store and then made spaghetti. After that I checked Rita's hair for lice because it was itching really bad. We found a total of 21 bugs (I think that was the final count) and a ton of lice nets. We started at 7:30 and it is now 1am and we are still working on digging them all out. We sprayed all of the mattresses, put all of our clothes in bags and washed our hair with lice shampoo. No Bueno! We all decided we are going to use the shampoo every ten days just as a procotion! God is good for being with us because we all were grossed out majorly!
And a small update on the little girl who had the surgery. Everything went well and she is in recovery until tmro.

Swine Flu

So I didn't get to tell you all that on Saturday night I found out that the kids have off school for 3 weeks because of the cases of the Swine Flu in Peru. No worries it's not here in Pacasmayo! lol And anyways the safest place to be is in the center of God's will so I am not worried about it. ha ha So Yesterday the kids didn't go to school. I was excited beacuse that means we have more time to play and hang out with the kids but I was still a little bummed because I was looking forward to seeing what teaching English here would be like.
In the morning Karen, Emma, Peggy and Wanda and I went into the market. We were there all morning because the ladies had lots of shopping to do. Let's just say it's not like wal-mart lol. I took some pictures but I am still on Kevin's computer so hopefully when mine gets up and running I will load some for u because you guys have to see this. I will just leave it as a suprise. This guy came up to me holding a box stuffed full of live baby chicks. He asked me if Iwanted to buy one....and I am pretty sure those aren't for pets. :) It is so different. Not in a bad way though. After the market Kevin, Rita, Karen and I had lunch with the kids. After lunch Kevin and the little girl here ( I would tell you her name but I would butcher the spelling) left for Trujillo. She is the one who has the tumor. I just got news from Peggy that the surgery went well. Thanks for the prayers those of you who knew. Sry I meant to get on earlier but I never got a chance. They are still waiting to see if it is cancerous though. Rita and I (well mainly rita) lol taught the kids those games you can do with the string on your fingers. You know like Jacob's ladder and a broom ect. It took me forever to figure out one of them. Betzy a little girl here and Gerson were teaching me for like an hour. I could do it, I just couldn't remember it on my own. I finally got it and Gerson said Thank you God! (in English) It was toooo cute! After that I played a lot of volleyball and basketball. Then Rita, Karen and I went to bible study for the youth guys from the church here. We read through Genesis 26 last night. They read and then Cherry (an English teacher here) talked about it. It is in English to help them learn it. We talked all about God's promises. Such an important part of our walk with Christ yet they are often over looked. After the study we played so Charaids with movies and songs. hmmmm yeah try playing with a few guys that knew no English at all. It was interesting and very entertaining. :) After that I got to talk to my Meggie Moo Who and my beautiful family on skype! YEAH!!! So that is all for now!