Day 4: Piñata Party!

Hello everyone! 

Honestly, I'm sitting here and don't know really know what to write hehe but not because nothing happened but because so much has been happening during these couple of days! Plus I never know how to start these posts!

On a lovely morning, meaning Tuesday morning (August 14, 2012), our team headed back to Centro Escolar Goldtree Liebes. It is a blessing to be greeted by tiny students with big smiles on their face. (Well, not all of them, some of them just stare at us very seriously hehe). During that morning, we were starting to do the piñatas with the students. We had the newspaper, balloons and the glue ready to go. We set up some chairs and had the student pair up or be in groups of 3 or more.

We spent most of the morning doing the piñatas with the kids since it's four layers of newspaper that needs to be put on the balloon in order for it to harden it and have a shape for the piñata. While doing this, the team was blessed with a lot of time to get to know the students. There were many conversations happening everywhere. 

The whole day was spent to get to know the students as well as give out bracelets and explaining the meaning behind it. It was really really really great to talk to the students and I think I speak on behalf of the whole team that the students were so welcoming, friendly and energetic. For lunch, we drove back to San Salvador and went to a restaurant called, "Pollo Campero" which is like the KFC version for Salvadorans. It's really yummy chicken! which also had free wifi ;D

A lot of the time we spent it on handing out bracelets. The kids LOVED the bracelets, maybe love isn't the word to describe it. I don't know how many bracelets we gave out but we definitely ran out of them by the end of the day, and we had to come back and make some bracelets that night. 

I hope you guys enjoy the photos :) I know there is not that much details of what we did but that is basically what we did the whole day. We spent the whoooooooole day with the students at the school and just building relationships with them, getting to know them instead of just having them ask us questions. It was truly a blessing that God placed us at this school, with this children that are so open and lovely with us. It's amazing to see how God works through each of us in the team. He has such a different and perfect plan/purpose for everyone. He is so sovereign and great!

Thank you for your prayers and for reading our updates :) I apologize for the delays again, but the internet at the hotel is not so great and is quite picky on who to let use the internet. Please pray that the Lord continues to work through us by giving us patience and love for these children. We really must not rely on our own strength, only God can give us the perfect strength that we need. May we love these children like Jesus' loves them and let Him shine through us. 

Thank you :)
In Christ,

Laura Veronica and Team