December 8th

Today we got up and did devos and had about a half hour of personal devo time. We then left for a tourist town called Suchitoto. It was next to this huge lake and a very safe place since tourists visit there often. The lake was gorgeous. We were supposed to take a boat ride, but it ended up not working out, so we just got to hang by the lake for a little bit before we headed back to the main part of town. Part of our outreach for today was to play soccer (football) with the church’s league. So, when we got back to town, we met up at a “soccer field” and our team was given a uniform for the game. It was really cool and funny. Even Greg dressed up in the uniform…it was a bit small, but we all got a good laugh out of it. We lost the game, but we totally had lots of fun playing and watching. We then jumped on the bus and followed a truck that had three of our clowns dressed up, and Tanto going around and announcing the outreach to them. It was great, because, even though we went door to door during the game, it got more people out of their houses and got them to jump on the bus to go. The outreach went really well. We added a clown drama that got a good response from the audience and Michelle gave her testimony and taught. We then did balloons, and promptly ran out, because we had so many kids. We were given more, but we ran out pretty quick of those too. The kids were so adorable, and it was sad to not be able to give all of them balloons, but there were so many kids, it would have been impossible to give every one of them a balloon. Oh, I forgot to mention who was a clown. Autumn, Gabriele, Loni, Camille, and Chris were clowns. They all did a good job at their part, and I could tell the audience loved them. They are all so animated. After we finished with the balloons we packed up and came back to the house. It was about an hour and a half drive one way, but we always enjoy long bus rides. It gives us more opportunity to talk to each other, or do homework or catch up on sleep that we didn’t get the night before. Good use of the time. We got home and waited for our caterer who has been late almost every time we’ve used her, and got our food. We had devos and then free time until we decided to go to bed.