Scott's Monday

Good Morning!!

Day 3 is now in the books and day 4 is just starting to see the sun!

This morning we got up to the same GREAT breakfast buffet! And off to
the bus for another day of great fun in Lveasor! While on the bus, we
find out that the route we are going to take (the only route there)
could take as long as 3 HOURS in traffic!! He was wrong, however, it
was still the worse traffic that Greg had seen here in 6 years. Which
is causing our bus ride to begin at 6.30 this morning instead of 7a

When we got to the orphanage…the day had begun! It was crazy! The
kids were all at the entrance ready for us to be there!! After the
handshakes and the name game…we all went into the pastors conference
to introduce ourselves and tell them what we are going to be doing
this week! When the introductions were over, the surprise of the day
happened! They broke up to go to their respective areas of interest!
And the first area that they called was for those going to the water
purification school! Steve has gone beyond having to simply put in a
system…he is now teaching the natives to replicate it! He was a
little shocked…he had nothing prepared, no notes for them to have, not
diagrams or anything…however, Steve took it with class and now can say
that he leads "international water purification confereneces:" What a
man!

The Bible School is going great! The kids are great, they listen and
are well behaved and it is just crazy! Randy told the story of Jesus'
birth and did a great job of adding energy and excitement and the
translator did a great job of translating the excitement as well!!
Then we dressed up the kids and they acted out the story! We forgot
to get someone to be the donkey that Mary and Joseph take to Bethlehem
so I was voted the Donkey!

Lunch soon came and that was ok! Rice and bananas once again!!

After lunch we got the kids to color their sheet! They did an amazing
job of sitting patiently while we distributed the colors and the
coloring sheets!! We had 150 kids, a few more than anticipated so a
few did not even get supplies, but we never heard it from them, those
patient rascals!!

Then the games began…we beat each other up with noodles…we played a
number game! They still had the parachute from last year and we
played with it!! It just caused a big dust storm…bad idea!! And we
played Volleyball!!

I got a chance to speak at the pastor's conference yesterday, and it
was very fun, yet quite interesting! Very different dynamic teaching
through a translator!! But I thought it went well…a few times I got
ahead of myself and was like wait…you need to translate!!

The night ended soon…we were all tired! So we ate at our hotel and
then crashed early…like in the 8s!!

Well it is that time of the day…time for another great breakfast buffet!

Love ya
Scott