Saturday and Sunday and Monday

Hello everyone! This is Rachel Brock, not Amber. She has been neglecting the blog, so I will be taking over for today.

Saturday morning we all went to a coffee plantation which turned out to be a lot more interesting that we all thought it would be. Jenna got to turn the beans that were drying in the sun. Just like a Nicaraguan immigrant. Then we drove up to the volcano Poaz. (Its smelled like sulfur.) We took a nice hike up the trail to see it and a longer hike into the rain forest to see the lagoon. It was beautiful. The rest of the day we relaxed back at church.

Yesterday was Sunday. We attended church at Pastor Angel's church in the morning and spent the rest of the day relaxing.

Today, Monday, we went to La Escuela de Ninos (The Little Childrens School). This was a school that was started by a wealthy lady, Tita, and her husband to help a few select children succeed in school and life. Tita told us that the children don't have any idea about how important hand washing or tooth brushing is. They teach them all these things when they come to school, and also feed them and sell clothes to the mothers. They are having winter vacation right now, but about a hundred children came to eat lunch there, and about 40 of them stayed for our health and hygiene presentation, but best of all was that we got to give out Sawyer Water Filters to all the mothers who came. They got a bucket with the filter attached that can filter 5 gallons of water in 45 minutes. They all got to take these home and hopefully they will use them all the time now because the water in that area was really bad and everyone was sick.

Tomorrow we're returning to the Salvation Army to install a hand washing station in their kitchen. We will also have about an hour to play with the kids there. This is our last day of work, so please pray for the work we'll do there, and of course pray for safe travels as we return to the states on Thursday.

God bless!