DTS Update

Friday: we had off in Belize again
Saturday:
On this day we went out to evangelize to some kids (and adults) in the park with balloons. The swords were somewhat of a hit with the rest of the animals. We also gave a service to people at the workshop again. Youth. After that service we preached and gave a program to the Hispanic church in the area. We were planning on a Youth service but there was just a few youth. Instead attendance was like a typical Sunday morning type service. They had us perform our Drama. This went well. which went well.
Sunday:
We attended an English church in the town of San Pedro. The church is more modern and for a few years has been broadcasting their services on TV throughout Belize. During this morning service we performed a drama, shared a testimony, and Jeff (our guide from the Belize base) shared a message. That evening we returned for a youth service where we did a drama, played a game, shared a testimony and message! We ended up not getting home till late.

Monday: we left for travel. After two boat rides and a sizeable bus ride to Flores, Guatemala we arrived. Bruce went on to Guatemala city while the rest took it easy. where Flores is located. We had planned on visiting Tikal since we were in the area. About 3 hours late, due to a strike, we still hadarrived in time to see the main sights from Tikal. This took most of the 4 hours. After Tikal we bused all night to Guatemala
Wednesday: Another travel day, We arrived in Guatemala City about 6:30 or 7. We chilled in Guatemala for a few short hours then went to the next bus station. The bus was late, but we got on it 2 hours late still. We finally made it to El Salvador around 9-10ish. We ate pulpusaspupusas
(you can’t go to El Salvador and not have pupusas!) and then headed to bed sometime after 11.
Thursday was a kind of a day off. The morning started that way but we went to the mall in the afternoon and helped set-up and cleanup with a presentation. We also started to get packed again because we found out around noon that the next day we would be leaving again.
Friday: This consisted mostly of getting ready and then leaving for another town in El Salvador about an hour and a half away. After we got there, we ate and then drove off to a small church group. The church likes to set up small meetings that a leader will guide. This is for mostly non-believers. So a team of three or so people will have the open air preaching. They often also give out a small snack. Interestingly the volunteers are often quite committed and dedicated. The pastor said that they have 57 cell groups.. We preformed a couple dramas for this one, and then the pastor preached.
Saturday:
In the afternoon we went out to pray for a slightly older lady, maybe mid 50s. She had a tumor in her chin that appeared to be the size of about 2 small papaya fruits (The tumor was maybe about 6 inches long and 3 inches in diameter). She had been in pain some earlier but now I think I believe now that she wasn’t feeling the pain. Still I believe everyone felt sad for her. She is a believer but her husband said that he wasn’t. While we were there, he prayed to receive Christ after we prayed for his wife.
We went to a splinter, or outreach group from the churchThat night we went to a place where they were building another church.. I (Jordan) Preached for about half an hour except that it was translated, so only really needed to be about 15 minutes long. The rest of the group worked with the kids. At first we were not expecting to have to perform any dramas for this service. We didn’t bring anything, but the pastor asked us to do a couple of dramas anyway. Thanks to Edwin we still preformed a couple unplanned, but potentially impactful dramas.Instead
Sunday
This day was a little more busy than our other days there. The day started out with a youth service. Our group lead 2/3rds of the service. Carlos had a game called Mathew 7:12. This went quite well. After that Edwin preached for a good half hour or more. After eating and a little rest we went back to the church for the next service. This one lasted 1.5 hours. The first part consisted with us sitting through the worship service. The next hour we had a plan to keep the kids in two classes entertained and teach them. This actually went quite well despite a hiccup or two.
Monday: This was another day that we kind of had off. We were going to go on a tour, but I think that most of the group was too tired to get up around 6am. Instead we sat around a little in the morning. Suzy and I took a walk with the pastor. After that we ate and Julia and Francisco came and picked us up.