August 9th - Our Wisconsin Flag

After eating breakfast with the little girls, we headed to church. I saw David & Lydia (the founders of Emmanuel) before heading in to church, so gave him the flag of Wisconsin that my dad had bought. Last year I had noticed that there are many flags hung inside the church of the countries and states of the many volunteers Emmanuel has had over the years. They did not have a Wisconsin flag, which I made note of in one of my blogs. By the time I returned to the States last year, my dad had already purchased one for me to take this year!

The preacher was a pastor from the volunteer group and as he spoke each sentence in English, another of their volunteers translated for the many children. He talked about Solomon and also about the prodical son, and how when God speaks that we are to listen and respond. God rejoices when you go to Him.

After church, I started a load of laundry and then we went to have lunch with the little girls...all the while, Andrés played chess with the older boys. We walked down to the entrance of Emmanuel where they have a store and a little restaurant, and Jenny bought the last black, non-termite-infested baseball cap with Emmanuel´s logo embroidered on it.

Around 2pm, I brought one of the 50 (or so) Disney movies in Spanish that had belonged to Andrés to the dining hall for the young girls to watch. Merethe said they had never seen Anastasia before. These were all movies Andrés had accumulated over the years on VHS, and since we don´t watch them nearly as much anymore, I thought they would get a lot more use down here...and all the better that they are completely in Spanish!!!

We had supper after the movie and then went back to the farmhouse for the rest of the evening.