Guaimaca

This morning began with heading to the medium boys house once again for morning circle devotions.  Anaiel (one of the leaders of the medium boys' house) led the devotions since there wasn't a team member who came our way to lead them.  After walking with the boys to breakfast, we stopped at the tienda to have breakfast as well.  Alina asked for a plate of 'desayuno tipico' (the breakfast she ate yesterday) while Noah and I tried their burritos with egg, cheese and bacon.

There was no school this morning, so when breakfast was finished, we headed up to the power toddler house to finish measuring/sizing the power toddlers.  We decided we were going to use the entire morning for measuring since many children would be either in the yards or their houses, rather than in school.  Then we walked over to the small boys and were able to measure all of the boys in that house except for one leader (who we grabbed at lunch).  Then we walked to the front yard and got all of the medium boys in the yard.  We were still missing about 14 boys who were out working, but decided to grab those during and after lunch as well.  We also got to the small girls as well, but lacked many of the older girls that live in that house who were in school.  In total we have probably sized 200+ of the 500 children here so far.

As we were sizing the medium boys in the yard, Andres' friend (Rudy) had a plastic gecko and asked if he could get a Mexican paleta (sucker) if he was able to scare Alina with it.  I told him I'd take him up on that offer.  He held the toy in his hand, hidden, until just the right moment and then had a medium boy put it on her shoulder.  She jumped quite a bit!  I made sure that he got his sucker later that afternoon.

At 12:30 we headed with the volunteers into town to buy some groceries, so that we wouldn't have to constantly be eating at the tienda and that we'd also have snacks around our room for Alina and Noah to eat.  I feel like Noah has grown in height a little bit in the week that we've been down here with all of the sleeping and eating he's been doing.  That probably sounds silly, right?  On the way home from the grocery stores and the bakery, we stopped by Glenda's stand.  I have written about Glenda in past years...she has a little stand at her house where she sells some fruits and vegetables.  She was so excited to see us and excited to meet Noah as well.  She asked about Bob and Andres and said to say 'hi' to them.  We bought some tomatoes and avocados from here, and she gave us a deal on the avocados (said they were 18 lempiras but would give them to us for 15) because we were back in town and she was so happy to see us.

When we got back to Emmanuel, we put the groceries away, rested a bit (since it was such a hot day and the walk from the gate of the orphanage up to our room is mostly uphill) and then we got ready for church, which started at 4:00pm.  It was a short service again, so when we let out, we headed back to the room and ate a little bit before calling home.  If you purchase a phone down here (I just get the cheapest phone available), you can get deals to call the U.S. for $1.25 for 30 minutes.  So we ordered that package and got to talk to Bob, Kaylyn & Jaden for 1/2 hour for just $1.25.  We each got our turn at talking, although Alina chose to eat a mango from town and just listen rather than talk much.  When our 30 minutes was up, we hung up and went in for the night.  Alina and Noah played a card game of war, and then some checkers before we headed to bed for the evening.