Mexico Day 5

Today is my day to write about out days activities. We went back to the church we painted on Tues to finish the iron gate. We got it almost finished but it is quite a chore. We mix black paint with paint thinner and it smells great. After Brittney has been painting for awhile she comes alive and she tried her hardest to tease Anne and get her to break but Anne held true to her composure and gave it right back which made us all laugh. Dan on the other hand spent the whole time trying to bribe Enhenio to kill the rooster that kept cockadoodeling. He kept saying he would pay 200 pesos if he would kill the rooster. Dan finally yelled - in Spanish - kill the rooster and just then 5 of then let loose which even made Enhenio laugh. Once we were finished we went back to the church where we said goodbye to Anne, Brooke stayed back because she was not feeling well and Anne wanted to be with her. We, on the other hand, stayed back for a lunch that none of us, but Christy, liked. Really hot soup with sponge cheese and some kind of chicken salad on a toastada. After that we took our VBS material and went to the School of Champions. The was the best part of our day. Before they told us we could not give lessons about Jeses because it was on Govt property but then all of a sudden there we were with the material and a fabulous translator. We told the story about Jesus and the little children. They colored happy/sad faces and made a necklace from the Bible verses with wild colored string and beads. They loved it and our translator had them repeat the verse multiple times. Then we spent time talking to them well the only thing we knew how to say was What is your name and How old are you. The smiles and their big eyes said it all. We had bigger kids who kept trying to come into our classes because they wanted to do the craft. The best part was on our last class there was a boy - we will call Brandon- who was desperately trying to get his necklace and beads just right, and at the very end Dan gave him his hat that said Mexico and the smile would have melted your heart. He ran out to show all his friends. Then Dan played soccer with the kids and Philipe made Dan go on the girls team. They all giggled and put their hands to their mouth - but they loved it. After that we went back to the church and we were suppose to go home but they needed Dan to go for 5 min - turned out to be 20 to get furniture from someone who donated it to the church. Dan had the ride of his live on the back of a truck going 60 mph down these skinny side streets. People pay good money to go on rides half as fun. I on the other had still can not look when they drive we are millameter away from the other car. When we got back we went to dinner at Dominos - yes some members of our team were craving pizza. They bri ng the pizzas to your table, we ordere 3, and we had no idea what kid he was saying but there were 3 so we took them. Turns out we had the other two tables pizza and they went crazy when they opened it and it was our Deluxe pizza - they gave us dirty looks but we tryed to offer them the right pizza. Just as we were about to leave there appeared a little girl who looked up at Anne. Anne kept looking at us - like what am I suppose to do - so she gave her a piece of pizza. After she left we all just started laughing like who was she and where did she go. Well I will end this and would have written this in Spanish but not even Spanish speaking people would have been able to ready this - according to Dan.

For the Team....Mary