Update 4/13/12 - 4/20/12

     Hola mis amigos. Jesse, Shaquanah, and I have officially been here in El Salvador for one week and we’ve been up to a lot. So below is a summary of the week.

     We safely arrived here Friday night on April 13^th and met the Gilbert family. There’s  Randy, Karen, and their boys – Noah whose 8 and Ben whose 5. They’re the missionary family that we will be staying with for the next six months while we’re here in San Salvador.

     On Sunday’s the central church that we help out here in El Salvador has a program called Campos Blancos which is translated “White Fields” in English. This program takes Sunday school to the kids in the surrounding community and the three of us have been able to help out with that program and will continue to help out with it for the six months that we’re here. We go to different neighborhoods and play games with the kids there, give them a snack, do arts and crafts, and of course give them a Bible lesson. It’s a great way to bring Sunday school to kids who otherwise wouldn’t be there.

    Besides campos blancos, Shaquanah’s also been helping out at the Christian school at the central church in San Salvador. She helps with three grades with the kids’ ages ranging from 2-5. There’s also a missionary couple from Honduras here who have a young 2 ½ year old son named Rozell. In the afternoons Shaquanah has been helping to watch Rozell so that his parents can attend classes for training and get some things done that they wouldn’t be able to do otherwise.

     Jesse and I have been working with Randy and another missionary named Trevor over in San Martin at the boy’s orphanage which they call “La Casa” (which means “The House”). We’ve been working on some construction projects to prepare for some mission teams that will be staying there in San Martin throughout the summer. There are two bungalows on the orphanage property where the teams will be staying. One of the projects that Jesse and I have been doing with Randy is building some concrete steps outside one of the bungalows. It’s been hard working in the hot humid weather here in El Salvador, but we’ve been accomplishing a lot – which is good because the mission teams will be here in just a few weeks.

      In a nutshell, that’s what we’ve been up to so far for our first full week here in El Salvador. It’s been great being able to serve God and doing all this for His glory. We all look forward to the next six months. Please continue to keep us and the work God is doing here in your prayers. Dios Les Bendiga. God bless you all. Adios!