that will help her this week.  We have Barbara to help with counseling (children, teachers, etc), Tim and Debbie are working with 7 boys to create a recital on Friday night and Dave will be creating a video of their official student election that will be held this week.  We have Ann, Jack and Anna who have stepped in and began helping with preparing the meals in the kitchen, Harold and Bill have run with painting 2 offices, and Shirley and I helping out where needed. 
Our team was involved with making pinadas and baking cookies during their afternoon school activities.  Monday night we had our activities with the girls...what a joy to spend time with them and play with their hair.  They absolutely LOVED the barretts, ribbons, etc...

Tuesday - Wow...with the prayers of you, our team is running with all the new challenges of this mission trip.  We thought we would be down here to love on the children and help where we can, however we have taken on so many wonderful projects that they will not end when we return home.  We are going to come home with new expectations of our parish and I am looking foward to sharing what we need.  Not only that, we have ¨lessons learned¨ for the next trip of missionaries. 
Today we helped continue to paint the offices  On a funny note, Harold decided he wanted to remodel one of the offices by simply scraping the cracked paint on one of the walls...this turned into a huge hole in the wall that required them to fix it before we could paint.  Lesson Learned - these buildings are adobe buildings...don´t scape; paint over!!! While part of the team was breaking down buildings, the other team was assisting in the kitchen.  Our afternoon activity was sewing tea towels; we will be completing these tomorrow during the second session.   Our evening activity was with the young boys...we ended up pulling out 6 Jenga games and puzzles for them.  We thought we would be playing a game, but boys will be boys and they turned this into building things...what a joy to see their imagination grow!  The large sterofoam puzzles were turned into houses, boxes, etc while the Jenga pieces were used for making towers, roads and designs.

Please give me a couple of days to share the emotional side and how God has provided for them.  Claudia´s daily lessons are quite good, the children see God in everything and this place is Peace on earth!  I truly want to share all the experiences from the last few days, however there isn´t enough time to write it all.  So, facts now and a final summation later.

Please continue to pray for the team...we need all your support through this journey. Much love.  Peace+