Baptism day!

Sorry for not posting every day. The daily things that happen to me seem less extrodinary now so I sometimes have a hard time being motivated to post them for you all to read. However there were some exciting highlights this last week that I will share with you.

Last Thursday Fred took me and some of the boys out for a worker appreciation day. All the boys that have been working and Carlos and Aurelio got to go to a resturant where there is a lot of pretty greenery and trees and flowers. The resturant also had a pool and a playground. When we got there and were excited to check out the pool we were a very disapointed to find that it was empty. We decided to stay and eat anyway because we knew the food was very good. All the plates were huge and Jose ended up getting a plate of Ceviche which was bigger than him. So after lunch we went on a search for some water to swim in. Thats when the Peruvian adventure came about.

Jose with his huge plate of Ceviche

The gang at the resturant

We were taking the ancient van, and I say ancient because old just doesn't do it justice. After about 100 meters out of the resturant the van starting smoking. We got out and took a look and discovered that there was a cut in our radiator hose. So me and the kids got some ice cream while we waited for Carlos to go buy some tape from the nearest store. After we patched it up we filled the radiator back up with water and were on our way. We had to stop every mile though to fill it back up with water because it was still leaking pretty badly. So after about 6 stops we finally made it back to the house.

Sunday:

We had our annual baptismal this past Sunday. We all got to church around 9:00 AM and had a short service that lasted until about 10:00. After that we all piled into the van and headed out someone's house that had an irragation creek behind it. We got there around 11:00, and had a little free time and ate lunch while the kids all jumped in and had a lot of fun swimming. At 12:30 we started the baptism. We had 10 people get baptized that day. Four of them were older girls from the orphanage. After the baptism we all just sat around in the shade and played games and talked until about 2:30 then headed home.

Kids swimming in the place where we baptized

Pastor Auden baptizing Milagros with the help of Fred

Current:

Right now the Sams family from Blue Springs is here visiting. I've been having a good time so far showing them around the city and just hanging out with some local Blue Springsians.

Tomorrow unfortunately I have to go to Trujillo at 5:30 in the morning to talk with a judge. They had this idea to take five kids from our orphanage and five kids from a couple other orphanages and combine them into another orphanage that doesn't have very many kids. So we are going to explain to the judge how terrible this is for the kids. To have to be moved to a new orphanage after they've been living here for so long and have finally gotten comfortable with it.