November 30th

Today we got to sleep in a bit. It was a nice change, not to mention no one was in bed before 1:30 because Devos ran a bit late….well, more like a lot late. But anyways, we prepared for our outreach at a small church in a town outside of San Salvador, and then headed to drop off our laundry at the laundry mat, and then to the mall. It was a nice short break for all of us. We finally got back on the bus at about 1:45 and headed out. We arrived at the church and were promptly split into groups for passing out invitations to the poor people in the area surrounding the church. This church was amazing. There was grass, like, manicured grass everywhere; and there was a soccer field and a nice place for having outdoor meetings like the one we had today. We had the three clowns dressed up for passing out flyers. It was a lot of fun. Camille was one of the clowns, and the mental picture I have right now of her dressed up skipping in between the rows of poorly kept houses was just a sight to behold. She was so cheerful and reached out to the kids out on the streets. I’m personally very glad the clowns were there to help. We got back to the church about an hour before we were going to start. Oh, I forgot to mention, that this outreach was planned for four o’clock but ended up being changed without our knowledge to six, and so we had to change all the flyers by hand. It was really funny, even through the frustration of not being exactly on with what was going on. Anyways, the sound system was put up and worked out, not the way that we would have liked, but well enough to get sound projected to the crowd. It was a really nice setup and a warm, inviting place in my opinion. People started to show up at about five minutes to six but the majority of the people weren’t even there till 6:15 or later. We started with a drama and then a testimony by Angie. She did a great job and she really didn’t want to give her testimony but she did it anyways, and I believe she blessed the audience. We then did a bit of music and then Rachel and Chris S, who we have affectionately nicknamed Justin and Brittany, did their awesome dance and then we had a second skit. After our skit, we had one more testimony and Nate closed us out. It was such a great time. After everything was done, we were hanging out with the kids doing jump ropes and Whit had a child on his shoulders as he skateboarded around the arena. It was CRAZY. I personally told him he was loco. J When we finally left, it was about 8:15-8:30, we drove to the mall and had pizza at Pizza Hut. I think that is the best pizza I’ve had in a long time (we hadn’t really eaten since like 12 that afternoon, so we were REALLY hungry). The closeness in our group is definitely tightening and I feel that we are becoming more of a family every passing day. I know that when we come home, the relationships we created with each other will keep us closer than a family for the rest of our lives.