Practicum Begins

Tomorrow morning we are leaving to head for Panajachel. We are spending a week there, the first days being a Spiritual Retreat, and the last few days are times for classes, and hanging out with each other, preparing ourselves for the craziness of Practicum in El Salvador. In El Salvador, my team, Los Ochos, will be staying in a town called Juequapa. It will be the first time this village hosts missionaries, so we are super excited, but also nervous. Our actions and the impressions we leave will shape their mindset on future groups. Since we, the students, are in charge of ALL the planning, it has been a lot of work getting everything arranged, but so far so good. We will be staying in a small hut back in the jungle, sleeping in hammocks out on the porch, and eating beans 3 times a day! : ) haha. They have us building a wall for them at their local school, and installing new toilets in the bathroom. Also we are running a four day kid's day camp which i am really looking forward to. Today marks the last time i will have access to a computer for the next few weeks until we return from El Salvador, so I'm sorry, I'll be behind in posts for a while, but I will try and give a full update when I return. Please keep us in your prayers as we begin this new adventure!