Dinner

Tonight we went to Pastor Denny's church (the church I visited Sunday morning). They had songs, welcome, and a psalm and then we went out next to the sanctuary where it was basically a covered patio and we ate a rice dish called "mahow". There was also salad y fried plantana. (Plantane; a banana). Then Cory asked about the church and its needs...it needs a new building and wants to have many more people. One can definitely feel the love of God at La Luz Divina; here there doesn't feel like there is as much love. They are across the street from a market and on Sundays they take the market sellers' children into Sunday School. There is a new law in Bolivia that churches must do a "social work" or forfeit their land and so this church is thinking of setting up a day care for the children whose parents work in the markets. It sounds like many pastors live behind their churches and that they all have a different vocation besides pastoring. Pastor Denny is the one with four daughters-Carla, Erica, Niecey, y Sarah. Philip y Lynn translated for us.

Playing cards

The first floor is the lobby, with the front desk, TV, newspapers, and computers. Second floor has rooms and this neat lounge area. Right now they are playing "Presidents", a card game that Cory taught us. The third, fourth, and fifth floors all have empty space so you can look down and see this lounge area. We all have rooms on the fourth floor and on the fifth floor is the restaurant with the patio with the view of the city. Names by bottom-left to bottom-right is Dustin, Kailey, Jason, Cory, Willie, Abby, Mom, and Dad.

Another view of the bus

Getting picked up from the airport at Santa Cruz, inside the bus, getting picked up by church people. Wow, I was just thinking that you guys that are following are probably getting so many notifications that it's a pain-sorry but it's just so much easier to post via email and more than one picture is too big. :( In this picture are (left-to-right) Daniel, Cory, Daniel :), Marrienna, Carla, and the driver.

Waiting at the LAX airport

I found some pictures that were older...so these pictures are (needless to say) not in chronological order. Note: these pictures are from three different people taking pictures on their own cameras. Names: Cory, Beth, Willie, and Jason.