Saludos desde Guatemala (Hello from Guatemala)

Hi everyone, today is our sixth day in Guatemala and like all the other days we have seen God at work in not only our lives but the lives of the girls here at the Oasis. Every morning we meet in the team room with everyone having breakfast. I would like to point out that Cory has been a blessing to the team by making eggs for whoever wants some. Thank you Cory! We started off with our team devotion reading Matthew 6:25-34 with God’s Word reminding us not to be anxious. Not to be anxious about whatever we may be going thru, about our families back home, about the girls here at the Oasis or the boys and girls in Zapote. We are to come to God first, trust Him and live by faith. After devotions it’s off to work we go. I’ve had the privilege of working with Dan every day. He is a great leader and an expert at what he does. The Missionaries office needed a table with storage space on the bottom so today we worked on creating storage cabinets. Our goal is to finish and install them tomorrow morning. Others from the team worked on painting the therapy rooms for the girls while others are finishing up more offices. We took our lunch break at 1:45pm. We look forward to having lunch every day because we get to spend time with the girls, laughing with them and getting to know them a little more. The fact that I speak Spanish has been such a blessing. The girls love joking with me and ask me how to say things in English. It was such a surprise to them to know that I speak both English and Spanish. One of them said to me that she’d like to be able to speak both languages one day. After lunch the girls get to go on their walk around the campus and we all get to go back to work. We finished working at 5pm and some of us went for a walk to Chicamen while the other stayed behind and played soccer with the girls. The visit to Chicamen is a yearly tradition. Tim loves taking pictures of children and families in the community and every year he brings them the photo he took of them the past year. The families are so thankful and enjoy seeing how much their kids have grown. A sweet 3 year old named Hugo came running as we left and gave me a beautiful red flower. What a cutie <3. It’s so neat to see how the community is so welcoming and loving despite of the language barrier and different race. The people that live around Oasis are very poor economically but rich in hospitality. After our walk the team had a short time to rest and mingle. The guys were playing with a walking stick insect. It was neat to see it but of course from far. We met for dinner and Randy shared a devotional with the team that left us with the questions that Jesus asked Simon Peter; “Do you love me?” Jn. 21:15. We pray that our answer will always be, “Yes Lord, I love you”. We finished of our day by  having brownies with vanilla ice cream on top. Thank you Tim for being such a great baker, it was yummy! I hope this gives you a glimpse of our day. Please continue to pray for us as we finish the physical work here at Oasis and the spiritual work with the girls. Please pray that God continue to shine His love on the girls and that we as a team won’t miss those divine appointments He has prepared for us to share with them. 

Thank you for you prayers.

Xochitl.