I can't believe the rest of the team will be here in the morning! We are so excited for everything that will be taking place over the next two weeks! Today was another day filled with productivity. Freddie picked us up for breakfast at 7:00 and took us to a small breakfast place in his neighborhood. The people were lovely and the food was great... we did have to stop by Mister Donut for a cup of coffee before heading to meet Wally though. Wally i
s a missionary who, with his wife Judy, has lived in El Salvador for 6 years now, working with young people, the poor and hosting mission teams from the U.S. He has been a wonderful help to us, and is continuing to lend all the help he can to us on this trip as well. We met with him to, again, get final details worked out. He then took us to meet Tia Ana, a woman who maintains an orphanage in the area. As soon as we walked in, the kids attacked Chad (who had met them on his last trip). One boy in particular wouldn't let Chad put him down, as you can see in the pictures. I can't wait to spend more time with them .
After we finished setting things up with Tia
Ana and Wally, and sorted some final details out with Evelyn (that amazingg cook I told you about), Freddie said he had the perfect place for us to have lunch. Well, as Freddie is driving, he takes a sharp turn and we hear a noise like something fell off the car. We stopped briefly for him to take a look at it, just long enough to realize he needed to take it in. We get back in the car and we assume Freddie is taking us to the place to eat lunch. Well he slows down (barely) outside a person's house and yells something in Spanish (with my limited knowledge of Sp
anish, all I caught was "4 people") and kept driving. He pulled up to the place you see in the pictures, and these guys just dropped everything they were doing to fix Freddie's car. (Let me mention that while we were sitting outside waiting for the car to be fixed, the guy Freddie yelled to came by on his bike asking what kind of meat we wanted, beef or pork. Freddie later told us that we were going to eat lunch at their house, and he was on his way to the grocery store to pick food up so they could cook for us.) The car eventually got fixed, it turned out to be the strut. (I have no clue what that means, but Kevin seems to...) We went to lunch at the house we passed on our way to the shop. The family was so sweet and genuinely so excited to be serving us. It was such a blessing, to meet such loving people, and the meal was delicious.
All in all, a very fulfilling day. Looking forward to the next surprise.
s a missionary who, with his wife Judy, has lived in El Salvador for 6 years now, working with young people, the poor and hosting mission teams from the U.S. He has been a wonderful help to us, and is continuing to lend all the help he can to us on this trip as well. We met with him to, again, get final details worked out. He then took us to meet Tia Ana, a woman who maintains an orphanage in the area. As soon as we walked in, the kids attacked Chad (who had met them on his last trip). One boy in particular wouldn't let Chad put him down, as you can see in the pictures. I can't wait to spend more time with them .After we finished setting things up with Tia
Ana and Wally, and sorted some final details out with Evelyn (that amazingg cook I told you about), Freddie said he had the perfect place for us to have lunch. Well, as Freddie is driving, he takes a sharp turn and we hear a noise like something fell off the car. We stopped briefly for him to take a look at it, just long enough to realize he needed to take it in. We get back in the car and we assume Freddie is taking us to the place to eat lunch. Well he slows down (barely) outside a person's house and yells something in Spanish (with my limited knowledge of Sp
anish, all I caught was "4 people") and kept driving. He pulled up to the place you see in the pictures, and these guys just dropped everything they were doing to fix Freddie's car. (Let me mention that while we were sitting outside waiting for the car to be fixed, the guy Freddie yelled to came by on his bike asking what kind of meat we wanted, beef or pork. Freddie later told us that we were going to eat lunch at their house, and he was on his way to the grocery store to pick food up so they could cook for us.) The car eventually got fixed, it turned out to be the strut. (I have no clue what that means, but Kevin seems to...) We went to lunch at the house we passed on our way to the shop. The family was so sweet and genuinely so excited to be serving us. It was such a blessing, to meet such loving people, and the meal was delicious.All in all, a very fulfilling day. Looking forward to the next surprise.
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