Tranquilidad Foundation's Mission Team Blog: Day 7 - Splish, Splash and Piñata Time!

Hello to all who read this! I, along with many other team members, have never blogged until now. So bear with me! So day 7 began with devotion as always (not that it is a bad thing to do in the morning mind you) in Jeremiah 4:21. This verse is a reminder of why Jesus died on the cross, and that it all boils down to one single thing: love. The editor/publisher told me to put this quote from the morning in here.

”Love is the reason everything began, why it continued, and why it must end. But also, it is the reason it will never end.”

The whole team together before
the Oprea's departure.

After an astounding breakfast prepared by the three amazing ladies here, the Opreas departed from us to return to the homeland of S.C. Meanwhile, those of us remaining went to a kids program led by Martha (Owner of the compound) where we put on a VBS with the children there. If I remember correctly, there were around 185 kids. It started with the kids singing songs, and a scripture reading. Kari, with Daniel translating, began the program with the lesson on being the light of the world. The kids were then broken up into groups to go to stations. Once that was done, Jennifer sang “How He Loves” in Spanish. By the end of the song everyone was singing along! The kids then gave all of us gifts including Christmas ornaments and coconuts! I was given a book with scripture references and quotes. (I think Mrs. Roxanne is about to take it from me because if I’m not doing anything I start reading quotes. :) We then passed out food to all of them then came back to the compound to rest! Mrs. Roxanne, Daniel, Butch, and I took a detour to the TQ house where we tested the water system. We only had three problems, one of them being a insufficient gluing where the pipe comes out of the pressure tank! :0 Being the youngest, it was my job to hold it together while it built up pressure. Lets just say I had a cool pressure- washer like shower experience in the pump house.
Once lunch was ready, we took it to a program run by the Honduras Agape Foundation to do a VBS with them. There were around 35 children and 20 youth. We ate lunch with them and then Kari did the lesson again. After the lesson we all sang songs together. Abner, who is 14 (One of Sandra’s children) and I took turns playing the drum Jennifer bought down here. The kids and youth were separated and they all made Salvation Bracelets! Then came the surprise…… PINATA TIME!!!! They had all helped make a piñata for us to try, and let me tell you, that thing was hard to break! Speaking of breaking things, Mrs. Roxanne almost broke her camera! Oh, and look out Jake! Jenn said she is bringing home the piñata stick that she broke!

Abuelito Frederico (Grandpa Frederick) finalized the death of the piñata! We found out while getting ready to leave, that Daniel had a flat tire! Luis (a motor-taxi driver) took it to be fixed. We then came back to the compound for dinner. Afterwards we traversed (with Daniel and a fixed tire at this point) to a gym where we watched the Super Bowl! And all of us have agreed that there were many mistakes, however, we cannot agree on the biggest mistake of the whole game. If it were to go to majority vote the biggest mistake would be… THE WRONG TEAM WON!

We then returned once more to the compound extremely tired. To give an example of how tired, I thought for a second that the Broncos were a college football team. Yeah. For those of you that are not into football, that pretty much means I couldn’t think at all.
Tomorrow we begin the day working at the TQ house. So hasta luego amigos!

~Coy~