Saturday night, and all is well.

Sorry about not finishing my blogpost last night, to let everyone know we arrived in Guatemala safe and sound. I was super tired after being up for almost 40 hours... so, I hit the hay without blogging.

Passing through customs yesterday was a breeze for everyone... except Randy. He was traveling on a different airline than the rest of us, due to getting his ticket late in the game. He got a FULL body scan... AND, after a dog sniffed his carry-on luggage he had the opportunity to show all the contents to the customs officials.

What do they say about a picture being worth a thousand words? Well, instead of rattling on, I will send you a few thousand words in the form of pictures. Enjoy.

Larry is pointing out that this is the last chance for a meal with meat, as we are waiting at the Miami airport to board our plane to Guatemala.

As soon as we arrived at the mission house yesterday, God let us know why He had to send us down here early. We met three ladies from Indiana who were trying desperately to make good on a promise to provide 300 foam stars for a children's lesson before leaving Guatemala on an early morning flight today.  We offered our help and their mission was accomplished.  We gained some new friends.



We also got a head start in preparing for the children's crafts we are doing.  Crayons were being sorted on one end of the table as stars were being being produced on the other end.  It was a rather colorful event.






Our early arrival also gave us the opportunity to help Kevin and Ginny (our missionary hosts) with their ToDo list....

Ashley painting

Larry fixing an appliance.

Sue cleaning windows.  (BTW, Jim... Sue wanted me to tell you she is feeling fine.)

Pastor fixing the plumbing. 

And a host of other tasks were completed for our hosts throughout the day!

For lunch we had our peanut butter sandwiches out on the rooftop....

While soaking up the sunshine, we wondered what the temperature might be up north today. (Just kidding... I had to throw that in.)

Anyway, we even had time to work on our props for our puppet skit after the chores were done.

I would like to close tonight with thanks to God for sending us down here early.  Now, like everyone else... I'm going to bed now.  Talk to you later.