Guatemala 2009

Well like I said we made it back safe (for the most part) and sound from Guatemala. It was a totally awesome week! For those that do not know what we were doing there, I'll give a brief overview. We went on a short-term mission trip with a group from our church (33 people, 13 of them were children) to work in an orphanage. A family from our church is moving there in June to be full-time missionaries. We worked on doing a total tear-out and rebuild of what will become their living quarters for part of each day and then we spent the rest of each day just playing and loving on all the children in the orphanage (there are over 400 kids there). We took one day and went in to the old capital city of Guatemala, Antigua. I think every single person in the group cried the day we left, it was so easy to get attached to the children in the orphanage. The kids all have a nickname of "Velcro Kids". From the minute you get to the orphanage the kids will just run up to you and jump up in your arms and hug you as tight as they can.