Day 7

It´s Sunday night and we are back from a very busy day. We got on the bus this morning and headed to Union for Church service. Cary did the sermon in Spanish and English so amazing that he can do that! Rick lead the singing for us, and we listened to the beautiful voices singing praises to God in Spanish. We visited with the folks there, many were known to us. Gary Marrs presided over the Lord´s Table with Gabriel Garcia translating. Alex Holder and Chris Stewart helped with the Lord´s Table and Ian said a prayer. We filled up the church, they had almost 100 children leave for the Sunday school lesson and the church remained full.

After service we headed to a fast food lunch and then on to Valley of Angels. Sort of like Gaitlinburg, a big square with lots of small shops selling junk- i mean precious souviners that some of you may be lucky enough to receive!

We were there for about 90 minutes and then headed to a small Catholic church- really old!!! in Santa Lucia and we sang beautiful praises to God for about an hour. It was awesome!!!

Then back towards town and dinner. The rain came and it is still raining, not sure what that will do to the plans for tomorrow. We have completed 15 homes and plan 3 tomorrow, VBS, and another hospital visit.

The boys are at Baxter playing soccer in the rain, the 2nd night for that.

CENTRAL IN WINTER HAVEN- YOUR PEOPLE ARE MISSING YOU!!! PLEASE SEND THEM SOME ENCOURAGING NOTES
Becky- please publish the site address!

To explain a bit about the blog- for all of you who think your comments aren´t coming thru- it doesn´t happen automatically. I have to sign on, review them and then post them. Most days i can´t get to the computer until late, so if you posted during the day you won´t see it on there until the next day. We have been very fortunate to have a computer in the lobby that we can use, but it is only one, and there are lots of folks who want computer time.
Sorry about all the confusion! We do love hearing from you.
Tonia

Message from Tonia Boyer
Stephanie H. you are very missed here! Can´t wait to catch up with you when i get home, hope all is going well. Love you.

Suzanne, Jimmy, Jim and Jan- it doesn´t get any better than singing with 70 people, mostly awesome teens, sitting beside Rick and in front of Alex. The guys take turns leading and when Alex started with Father God- i just got chills and tears. He really is doing great. I worked on his construction team yesterday and took a few pictures for you. I´m thinking he won´t want that to be his living- but he did well.

Middle school class- we loved your messages thanks for thinking about us and praying for us. We can´t wait until it is your turn.

Berry kids- I bet you were excited to see dad! I know he really missed you all, but he did such a good job here and we will miss him this week.

Mom- and everyone else in the family!
We are still doing well, i am so glad that Tami got to come. We are having some good bonding time along with rooming with Cindy and a crazy lady from Central!! We love Paulette and are having a great time- not sleeping much, because we are up late talking. Well except for Tami who falls asleep so quick. Love you all!!!

Note from Cindy
Hey Christy and Carrie,
We are still having a great time and missing you all terribly. Everyone is doing really good, it was nice to have a day off to rest and have fun. Carrie we got to spend some time talking with Blanca, Fernando and their mom (thanks to Gabriel´s help translating). I will tell you all about it when I get home. When we were at Union yesterday they were having a Ladies Day. It was so neat the women and teenage girls were all dressed up and they had hung flowers and pictures up. I saw Mommy Carmen there. PLEASE one of you get on the blog tomorrow and up date me on how Dad does with his test tomorrow. Christy, how did the kids do going to camp? How did you and Jimmy do? I bet Michael and Synthia will be missing them really bad in a day or two. Poor Michael is going to think that everyone he loves is going Bye Bye.
Goodnight, I Love you, Mom