Thursday, April 29th and Friday, April 30th

Thursday, April 29th

Hello to all the blog followers, it’s Katie; today was mostly an off day. We have been very busy and needed the rest, we slept in till about 12 and really just hung around the house all day. We all felt like walking ZOMBIES.

Finally around 4pm we started to get ready for a youth service at Pastor Eber’s (who has a great testimony, leads worship and is blind) church in Ancon. Service was supposed to start at 8pm and didn’t start till 8:15-8:30. Dylon felt sick ( no need to worry moms, Emily, Dylon, Mrs. Marilyn and I have all experienced this icky feeling, and it started with Emily, we are all feeling great now), but still pushed through his teaching on Unity, and could hardly tell he was sick, Emily sang her beautiful song, and I danced to the Revelation song.

God has been with us through everything we have done no matter how we feel. Before we introduced ourselves and went on with our program, some of the youth there had some special dramas and dances planned for us. “Special” doesn’t even describe it all, these people are so excited to share their gifts with us, and really just love to show how much they appreciate us being with them.

It’s not too organized here and we have become experts at just going with the flow as far as the order of service goes. As Dylon closed, a few people raised their hand for salvation, praise God. They all can’t express enough appreciation towards us all. Peruvians are very warm and welcoming. After I danced a little girl came up to me, Emily and Dylon ( she told me she loved my dance, and loved Emily’s song as well as Dylon’s teaching). This little girl’s name was Hennasis and gave us each one of her beaded bracelets from her wrist.) We left the church after 10pm and after an hour drive, went home to sleep!

Friday, April 30th

Our day was full of endless surprises. We ended up going to a school in the morning which got changed to an hour after the first time so we went to Starbucks and had some coffee. Here Dylon decided to have a shot of espresso so just imagine how our day went. It just got better! When we arrived to school we waited for about 30 minutes and walked down to a block which the school had closed off so that we could share of message with them and so that the kids could share a couple things with us.

Katie taught on the armor of God while Dylon, Rosita and I blew up balloons. To our amazement the balloon part seemed harder. We popped about 5 balloons all together, the kids were talking during the message and a woman who found it necessary to check the microphone every 5 minutes. By the grace of we got through it. We had four girls dance for us to the song “Jesus You’re my Superhero.” After an 11 year old boy started beat boxing which was amazing.

Some of the kids presented us with gifts and we went to lunch at the mall where we all had something different. We hung out there for about an hour and a half and when we went to the car it didn’t start. After pushing about 6 times Marco decided to put us in a taxi so that we could make it to the the pastors church on time. When we got there I got to share my message on being obedient. We gave out a couple prizes, danced, sang and played hot potato.

After service was over we got to see a pig that was a least 4 feet tall, layed out on a table. They had cleaned it out but the experience was a memorable one, especially for Katie! Dylon and I had no problems feeling it but for Katie it was life changing. Ahahahahaha. She freaked out!

After having a brief break we made our way back to another church where Dr. D spoke and Mrs. Marilyn and us LTI students got to entertain and share a message with the kids. After we went out to eat and arrived home at about midnight. This was a very long day for us but we did it! Woooooohhhooo.
Emily here!