Arm Wrestling, Church, Shopping, Ice

I started out arm wrestling these boys, but it turns out I'm not as tough as I use to be and lost to both of them.

The young man on the left (in the top picture) is in the green shirt here playing the bass at church.

It's good to get youth involved.

He's 16 now and I've known him since he was 12. He's a great young man that is on a different course than when he arrived at the orphanage.

There are 12 adolescent boys that live in this house.

Here they are all piled into the van on the way to soccer practice.

 

I decided that I needed an easier group of boys to arm wrestle, so I went back to where I'm staying at the middle age kids home. There are maybe 30 kids that live here with boys sleeping in one wing and the girls in the opposite wing of the building.

These kids are so much fun and are always laughing and loving.

I kind of had to cheat and use both hands on this one!

Here a few of the kids are reading letters that their sponsor send down with me to give them.

There are a few ways you can sponsor a child, you can pick one and send cards, letters and possibly gifts and there are financial ways that you can sponsor if you wish.

Here is more information, visit their website at:

https://hogardeamor.org/donar/

Or contact me and I can get you everything you need.

On this day, they didn't have school. So they had the adults line up and pick kids (like you would do for your team in basketball or if you were playing a game). It's hard because some kids always get picked last and there is a lot of commotion. I finally picked all mine and they said "now go do something with them." I asked "like what?" They said "anything you want to do." So we piled in a truck and went shopping.

We also stopped and got a cup full of strawberries and cream. It's the best!

(This was my second trip there in under a week, hehe)

After the shopping, we stopped by to get a treat for all the kids at the main house.

Shaved ice! It was made the way I've never seen before.

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Answered Prayers: I was finally able to get somewhat of a schedule going. I was able to move an air compressor for the dentist to a different room, she didn't like all the noise while working on patients (imagine that). I was able to change a faucet that was leaking and installed a cover on an electrical breaker. It's good to feel productive and not just be lazy and relaxing. I'm still looking for that balance.

Current Prayer Requests: For the people around me not to get frustrated with my repeated questions on Spanish, especially when it's the same question over and over again. They are very nice people, but everyone has limits as to how much Dan they can take.