Wednesday

This is going to be a quick synopsis because I am sooo tired.

Got up at 7:30. Ate breakfast. Had bread, jam, hot chocolate (they have unsweetened cocoa and then you add sugar). Left hotel at 8:30. Started working on concrete immediately. We bless you, cement mixer, to keep working. It kept dying today. We got about two sections done today, too. Daniel was sick (probably from overworking himself) and so stayed behind. Morning VBS we had 60 kids, afternoon: 50. Morning: colored y stuck cotton on picture of sheep (good shepherd, salmo 23:1). afternoon: glue cross on paper, write romanos 6:23. "muerte" (look it up; I don't know what it means atm ;) ). Did puppet show both times, morning got yesterday's, afternoon got today's. Kids are so adorable. We ended the work day at 4:00 today so the team came down to the cancha around four and we were still going so the team got introduced. Lynn translated for us in the morning y Philip (Phillieppae) translated in the afternoon. Played "Presidents" tonight-I played for the first time and tonight was Philip's first time playing also. We had to be back to the hotel by 5:30 because a souvenir-seller from Cochabamba came and sold us things. He is a Christian from a church in Cochabamba and sells us souvenirs for a discounted price because it's a guaranteed sell for him. Ed y Lynn usually have their teams buy trinkets from him. So he came and set up in a room off of the lobby in the hotel and set up on the floor y mesas (tables) y chairs. Mom and Dad y Abby y yo (me) bought A LOT of stuff. Afterwards, Lynn ordered pizza and Daddy y Philip y yo walked a few blocks to a supermarket and bought soda (like a lot) y drinking yogurt and bon-bons and a mint chocolate bar. Philip would tell Daddy something he "had to try" and Dad bought it. ;) I love my Dad. :) Then we came back and waited for the pizza while Victor (the souvenir-seller) cleaned up what was left of his merchandise. His family owns a store and he makes the fur slippers and the rugs out of alpaca fur. He brings all his stuff in bags using the buses. So when he was done, the pizza arrived and we summoned everyone down (Daniel came down and ate but Jason was late) and ate. Victor ate with us. I sat in between John Mark and Philip. There was pepperoni and a sausage-mushroom pizza and there might have been other kinds as well. Then we were done and walked up to the second floor to play "Presidents". We didn't have a meeting tonight. We also had a lady from the church wash our clothes. She took the clothes after breakfast and we got them by this night! We would put them in individual bags and she would wash them bag-by-bag and by hand and then hang-dry them and she wouldn't get them mixed up. What else? Dad came by this morning before we went to breakfast and dropped