Builders, Dealers and more

Hola to all. The last couple days we have been pretty busy doing some pretty random stuff. Steve and Elaine are great at planning our days and making sure we arent left saying 'what did we do again today.' The guys got to do some dabbling with the capentry on thursday and friday. We constructed a couple shoe racks for a shoe ministry downtown Xela. It is run by missionaires who get shoes from the states, shoes that are display models or extras that came with the order. This man gets them sent to Guatemala and sells them real cheap to the widows here who then sell them for profit at the markets and vendors. While we were putting together the racks, the girls were tampering with a life as drug dealers. This ministry also gets medical teams in and shipments of vitamins and certain pills. Upon our arrival the girls were escorted to the back room where they would spend the morning bagging drugs. They counted the baggies and figured they sorted about 16,000 pills. The gangsters better watch out. We got some mean baggers.

And now its time for another adventure story. We have heard a lot about these active volcanos before the trip and a bit while we are here, so it was definitely on the to-do list when we have some rest time. So thursday morning we took off up the mountain somewhere not to sure of where we going, we stopped quite a few times along the way to ask for some directions along the way, and to decide if we want to drive up and get a binocular view of this volcano, or to drive and hike to a spot which would've took more hours and we didn't have lunch. So up we went as the road was getting more and more rough, and less and less pavement. We stopped at this little church and picked up a man who was going to come with us and give us some more directions, so he crammed in the van and off we went. We got some sweet views on the ride up and the road started getting worse/awesome, until all the sudden our back wheel dropped and we arent moving anymore. The road was so narrow we opened the door to a filled out bush, everyone slowly got out and then we proceeded to lift the back end of the van out of the crevice it was in under the command of sargent Josh. So we finally make it to the top of this road and good thing we didnt meet anyone on the way or else I dont know how we would've got out of that one. The volcano looked pretty cool and it was an awesome view. But of course clouds moved back and forth and it was pretty far away. So we venturing around this place mostly looking for a place to go to the bathroom, and we ended up finding a toilet leaning up against a fence. No one used it, but I figured lets try to take the coolest panoramic pics while sitting on the toilet. So we lugged it around to different places took some sweet shots. Then the man who we picked up on the way up, turned out to be the mayor of that little area we stopped at, and I dont know how, but we got a picture of all of us with the mayor finding a comfy seat on the toilet. It was awesome.

(up)-The mayor on the pot-

Narrow is the path that leads to...

THE TOILET

Anyways, the sick bugs are starting to take a hike, and we are heading into a weekend with a VBS on Saturday and a youth event on Sunday, please pray as we prepare to lead them and especially the youth, because the pastor wants us to teach his youth how to study the bible. Thank you again for being faithful in praying. God has truly been working.