El Salvador Mission Trip Friday Update

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Buddy Champion

Today was another great and safe day in El Salvador.  Some highlights are:

• Today we had an opportunity to speak to a private school…there is a big difference between a public and private school here (private school is much better)!
• The question of the day:  How do you say Imodium and Pepto Bismol in Spanish?  Yes…the Latin American cuisine has hit!
• Cindy and Joy continue to keep us on task.
• Chad is the popular man today…he has the meds!
• This afternoon I traveled in a 15 passenger bus…with 24 people… to an orphanage in a very rural section of El Salvador.   Candace has been caring for 10 of these boys for over 5 years.  If you are reading this in America…thank God for His goodness to you!!!
• We spent time with 22 orphan boys, gave them a new change of clothes, hung new crimson (yes I had a problem with that) curtains in their rooms and put new bed sheets on their beds.  It was a cool afternoon.
• Tonight we ate some American food…Pizza Hut in an attempt to calm some digestive systems.  Pizza for that?  Oh well…maybe it will help.
• Taylor and Andrew are having a great week.  Andrew is picking up a lot of Spanish. 
• Macie is speaking Spanish like she knows what she is saying…apparently 6 years of Spanish really does teach you something!
• Our translators are incredible people…wish we could bring them to the states so you could meet them!
• Today three of us traveled back on the bus…with 21 people from El Salvador…the “greengos” sat in the back of the bus…I laughed to myself.  They are great people to hang out with.

 More schools tomorrow and Kid’s Clubs in a neighborhood!