Today we departed for Heroes (pronounced like Arrow-ess) for our second week of Club de Ninos, first week for most of the students and Beth and Anna. However, following our family day yesterday, the injured reserves list (out with “mal” stomach or other assorted issues) included: Laura, Kendra, Sophia, Caley, Brittnay, Amanda, Ashley, and Karen. However, in order to field a full team, we only benched Laura, Kendra, Anna and Zach who stayed home with mucho resto. Everyone else played through the pain. Attaway! “Diah Poo Poo” became the talk of the day for the girls. We attribute this widespread catastrophe to an “authentic” pot of beans that was served yesterday. Perhaps it was the mystery meat ...
Our two Mexican missionaries this week are Samai and Ale (pronounced Samm-ah-ee and Ali) who are both very nice girls. Our VBS at Heroes is in a track housing area, with some government assistance. Many casas literally identical, and if you make a wrong turn on a street it’s time for a hail mary pass to find your way out. There is a very nice park that we will have for the week with a basketball court, soccer court, cement area for chalk, jump rope, etc., an area to hang a tarp (way to climb the trees to secure the rope Noah, our in-house grease monkey) for shade, and a play area with swings, teeter totters, pummel horse, even bars, and other various play equipment.
We had 28 kids turn out for day one. The plan is to do additional canvasing early tomorrow morning. The entire area received fliers over the weekend. However, there were a lot of teenagers hanging around the park, so perhaps the moms were checking us out and the safety of the park before sending their kids. Several of the kids came after club got going today and we’ll see what the Lord has planned for the week. Also, our previous location Rolland and Jo Ann had been working in for many years, whereas they have only been working on this location for four months, and this is their first VBS at Heroes. Spirits are up, everyone is downing bottled water, and we continue to covet your prayers.
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