charades and chickens

January 23- Part 1 Every morning we wake up to the midget chickens that our landlord, Juan, owns. We keep the door and windows open because it’s so hot. I’m just waiting for one to come into the apartment… I’ve named them Crispy, Grilled, McNugget, Country Fried, and Charlie.


I got to play Charades with our neighbor today. She doesn’t speak English, but she came over and Sarah and I just stood there trying to figure out what she was saying. I got that her name is Lily and was offering us her dryer (a really small and quick little thing). She was very sweet and liked to laugh at my inability and communicate.

Today we also had church for the first time. Capilla Del Calvario, like most buildings here, doesn’t have any walls. It starts at 5p.m. I’m assuming because everyone would not be able to pay attention in the heat. Sarah and I were in the nursery. Everything was pretty much like how it was back in the States except the kids were screaming in Spanish instead of English. It became frustrating because when they are that young, most of them can talk, but they don’t know any English.

Things to learn before volunteering to work with the young kids:

• Animals

• colors

• “Don’t eat that”

• “be careful you’re going to hurt yourself”

• “get that box off your head you are going to run into something”

• “told ya so”

From what I know so far, we won’t be working with the Potter’s Field Kids for about a month. So for now our loose schedule will be taking orders from Brooke and Matt in the morning/afternoon Monday-Friday. Monday night they do street witnessing and hand out food. Tuesday night we have off and will probably spend some time hanging out with Pastor Phil and Rebecca or Brooke and Matt. Wednesday we have the choice of either going to a home group Bible study at Pastor Phil’s that will be all in English or a youth group that’s in a different town about 20 minutes away. Thursday we are babysitting so pastor Phil can spend some time with his wife, and Friday we will be leaders at a youth group held at the church. They don’t have any steady female leaders which they really need.

Prayer requests-

1. For Sarah and I to be able to communicate better in Spanish

2. They want to have me play guitar for the church. I’m not sure it’s something I can do so I need guidance

3. Preparations for the Potter’s Field Kids

4. Getting use to the culture. They are very save face and I think there’s a lot of American things that we do that could offend them

5. The ability to stand up and be bold to help this kids and to depend absolutely and completely on God



(And on a less important note I saw a grasshopper the size of my forearm. I think that’s what John the Baptist use to eat because it seriously had some meat on it)