This was Sunday and the holiday that was celebrated.I am sitting on the foot of the bed with my sweater on and a blanket on my feet. It is pouring rain outside and since the potty is outside I had to use my umbrella to get there. Cultural shock tonight!! I would love a cup of something hot, but thank God we do have access to pure water. I am missing having a kitchen. Just 9 more weeks and then we will be in Ecuador. That makes me remember what J. Elliot once said “Be all where you are.”
Rocky and I went on an adventure this morning so we rode the bus to Antigua and walked to Mc Donald’s to use the bathroom and then we got a tuk tuk taxi to a Baptist church in another town and Rocky just ask the driver if he knew where the Baptist church was and he said yes so off we went and he stopped out front of the church and it cost 15 quetzals ( maybe $1.20) We had a great time and we got to here hymns even if they were in Spanish it was good and one of the benefits of being Baptist is they had a meal that we were invited to after service. It was their 17 year anniversary. We eat with a young man that had worked in Houston 7 years so we were able to communicate.
Today was a celebration and everyone went to the cemeteries to clean and they planted flowers and put cut flowers on the graves of their deceased family members. There were lots of food venders and music and it was a day to fly kites.
After church we caught the bus back to Antigua and picked up a few things at super Mercado before catching bus back to San Juan del Obispo. We rested a short time and then we went to the cemetery to see all of the festivities and walked back to church plaza to sit and enjoy the beauty of this place. At 4:00 we walked back to our home to get on our homework. It is finished.YEA!
Ok I guess I will go out in the rain and get a shower and Thank God it is Hot.
Rocky and I went on an adventure this morning so we rode the bus to Antigua and walked to Mc Donald’s to use the bathroom and then we got a tuk tuk taxi to a Baptist church in another town and Rocky just ask the driver if he knew where the Baptist church was and he said yes so off we went and he stopped out front of the church and it cost 15 quetzals ( maybe $1.20) We had a great time and we got to here hymns even if they were in Spanish it was good and one of the benefits of being Baptist is they had a meal that we were invited to after service. It was their 17 year anniversary. We eat with a young man that had worked in Houston 7 years so we were able to communicate.
Today was a celebration and everyone went to the cemeteries to clean and they planted flowers and put cut flowers on the graves of their deceased family members. There were lots of food venders and music and it was a day to fly kites.
After church we caught the bus back to Antigua and picked up a few things at super Mercado before catching bus back to San Juan del Obispo. We rested a short time and then we went to the cemetery to see all of the festivities and walked back to church plaza to sit and enjoy the beauty of this place. At 4:00 we walked back to our home to get on our homework. It is finished.YEA!
Ok I guess I will go out in the rain and get a shower and Thank God it is Hot.
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