Back to Guatemala City

This has been an amazing week in Huehuetenango. I have tried so many different types of food and met so many amazing kids. We worked at the orphanage Fundacion Salvacion and ran a week long VBS by ourselves. I think we did really well, except we all got really attatched to the kids because we spent so much time with them. I think this will be our best week this month though. Our translators, Manuel and Alesandro were amazing.

We also got to see Mayan ruins and go out on a lake, Atitlan, that could be over 10,000 feet deep. No one knows. It´s volcanic and the government won´t allow explorations, so it´s always changing because of the volcanoes surrounding it.

The kids were amazing and we loved getting to play with them all the time, even when we were tired from picking up kids all day. The older girls made me feel so good, because when we played futbol they´d pass the ball to me even when they knew I wasn´t good at it.

On the last day, the kids put on this big performance for us where they danced and lipsynced and one baby even held a spoon in his mouth for a cute little trick...lol. The best part was when we all pitched in to help buy this boy a new wheelchair. He loved it. Now he can actually wheel himself around in this one if he wants to because it has those hand grips on the wheels. It was hard saying good-bye, but I´m already preparing myself for all the other children that will need to be loved just as much in the next few weeks.

We have church groups coming in from now on, so it won´t be just us leading VBS so it will be a lot less stressful on us. We start at a new place tomorrow. With new kids and new people to work with.

I am so blessed to be here and get to experience everything that I have. This is only the first week and I feel like I´ve learned so much. Thank you so much for your prayers and I´m continuing to pray for you.

Love,
Kirby