Thursday, April 30, 2009

Since we are leaving for Destrito Federal on Sunday, we Stephen and I walked down to Wal-Mart today to look for masks but they were all sold out of masks, and they didn't have any thermometers either. The rest of the day we spent more time at the base painting and doing props for their summer VBS. Yesterday Stephen and I traced a palace onto a very large piece of felt(30' x 10') the palace of Nebachunezzer using an overhead projector. It took us about an hour to trace it all and then today the whole team got to paint it. It took close to 4 hours with 7 people painting with sponges today and we still have more to do. It was enjoyable but very very tedious work. As we were finishing, I was mixing some paint to make some green for the palm trees and I set my cup down on the felt and then the wind came and picked up the felt, spilling my green paint onto the canvas! Fortunately it wasn't on the palace itself but on the blank space above the palace wall. We then decided that that exact spot would be a GREAT and PERFECT place to put another palm tree. It ended up turning out really good but it was just one more thing we had to do. And the pastor's wife didn't seem too happy because that palm tree wasn't in the picture she had given us, but she liked it in the end. Then tonight we went back and worked with the youth group that we had worked with last week. It was a time of prayer and worship which went really well! I had a chance to talk to Alejandro some more and really encouraged him to do DTS. He says he's really interested and wants to grow in his faith and not be a hypocrite so hopefully he will do one in the future. Please pray for him that God will show him exactly what he needs to do and that God's love and acceptance are endless and unchangeable.

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