Rain?!

It never rains here, just like in Chilca where we've been with Childreach. However, these last 3 days it has rained each night, all night. People's houses are flooding, including a couple rooms at the orphanage. When they build stuff here they never think about making it water proof. I have a picture of some city workers sweeping up water down below. I am praying that the rain stops because a lot of people who live around here don't have roofs. Also if the rain continues people's houses will litterally melt because they are made out of adobe.

Last night we took Gerson, Yhonson, and Joel out to eat some pizza at the only pizza place in town. It was amazing. I forgot my camera and so did my mother. Sorry. We got pretty wet getting there though even with taking a moto. I've got some more pictures below.

We'll be getting back Saturday in the morning. I'm not sure if I'm going to have time to post before now and then, so if not Thanks for taking this trip with us.

My dad with a big hardware store dog. He's huge, really.

Here is my mom doing flash cards, Mimi on the right and one of the twins on the left... I never can get their names

Man sweeping water through the streets

Nelson and his happy face

This is a shot of Jose eating popcorn...his hand is blurry because it's litterally moving that fast, maybe next time I'll put my camera on sport mode.

Pictures and update

The last couple of days have been pretty busy.

Friday was a big day. It started out with Ruben, Linche and their two sisters Jenifer and Ninilinita's parents showing up to take them back home. The kids had mixed emotions along with everyone else here. They were happy to go back to live with their parents but they were also sad to leave all their friends and comforts they had here. Before they left all the kids, house moms and I got in a circle and held hands and prayed for them, then they all hugged eachother goodbye. We loaded them up with clothes and soccer balls and then they left to go back to Trujillo.

After that I took the boys to the beach because the girls got to have a fingernail painting party earlier in the day with my mom. They reminded me that I still owe them dinner because I told them that if they could solve a puzzle we brought down then I'd take them. They figured it out pretty quick. So I told them not today but we'll go another time, because it was Norma's Quicenera tonight. They have a huge celebration for 15th birthdays for girls here just like they do in Mexico and many other latin american countries. There are a couple pictures below. Her Quincenera though was on her 16th birthday because she didn't get to have one on her 15th because she wasn't here. It lasted from 8 - 12 at night and was a great time.

Yesterday we gave the kids some stickers that were a present from Mrs. Sams preschool class. They loved them.

I'd write more, but I'd be late to the interview of the some of the teachers that I have to translate for. I'll catch up on some more later.

prison day and some other fun things

hola! I had some girls over
to paint nails and to have
coke, cookies and popcorn.
While they were waiting their turns for nails,
they were outside riding bikes.
As you can see in the cleaning picture, I have a new dress.
I found it in the clothes closet because I had to have a dress to wear to the prison.( More about that in a minute) Jordyn in the picture with kelly and the other one by himself is available for adoption. According to his bio he will be five this month. He seems younger. He is ADORABLE and chatters all the time. He loves the books I brought and has sat on my lap quite a few times to read. He has no siblings. Today when we came to pick up the girls we were taking for dinner he was outside and yells Kevine, Kevine! He wanted to hug Kevin and be picked up by him. I tried to hug him but that wouldn't do!

Thursday, I had the opportunity to visit the ladies prison. We had to wear dresses that's why I picked this new treasure out. I was told we would be searched but that didn't happen. It is harder to get through airport security than in that place. We had bagged up some individual packages of clothes for the women on Wednesday to take with us. We were escorted into the courtyard where a guard began calling the ladies in and blowing her whistle. They came in and lined up. They were all ages. I saw that some of them came in with their knitting needles so I thought, they must not be too dangerous to be able to bring those in! Also, the ladies with babies up to 3 keep their kids in prison with them so there were quite a few kids. A lady from the community talked to them about Jesus and then Avis prayed. I stood looking out at the group and noticed a blond fair skinned girl in her 20's. I noticed her face was hard and sceptical looking. I prayed that she would soften and hear the message. She came up for prayer later. I was able to get close to her when I was waling up and down the lines passing out toothpaste. I asked her where she was from. She spoke English. She said she was from the Ukraine. She was in Peru because of a boyfriend. His friends sold drugs so now they are all in . She told me the judge told her right before Christmas that is looks like she will be there 15 years. She said she had no family to help her. I don't know to what extent she was involved, but my heart went out to her. She said she didn't really understand about praying. I told her she could talk to God as a friend and just regular conversaion. She said bibles were available so I told her to try to read a little each day and start with Matthew. She said she had tried to read before but didn't understand. I told her to ask for understanding and that I asked for understaind too. At one point , the guard was telling her to go but she asked for a few minutes more to talk to me. I hugged her and told her that even if I never see her again, I would be praying for her. Her name is Alyena. It was very hard to walk out and leave her there. Another unexpected thing was that the women could sell what they had made. We bought some things. I bought 2 really cute hats for Bella and Sophie.
It was another WOW time in Peru. I can't count how many wow's there have been. Sorry this is so long. I will have to tell you all about Milagros and bikeriding another time.
Thanks for reading Lisa

Pictures of Bikes! (go to next post to read about)

Salesman Erwin supervising the loading of the bikes into his personal truck

3 of the 4 bikes we bought in the store
Some of the kids starting to learn

Ruben and his brother Linche checking the bikes out, they have never ridden one before

Ruben after riding around for about 5 mins, he could not stop smiling all day.