Day 26 Monday in Gallito :)

Hey all :)

Sorry I'm a day behind again even though I promised I'd keep it together... This group from Huntington is educating me on card games, first UNO now Rooke, need less to say we play every night, and my team continually shames Ben's team, so our intern rivalry is just right :)

Anyways Monday in Gallito we did lots :) we began deconstruction of the church, yes I know you don't generally associate mission teams with deconstruction, but to build sometimes you've got to take apart the old first... Lol

We did a little of that, while the medical clinic was going on in the Sunday school building, the saw over 74 people!!! With everything from rashes, to headaches, to problem with breastfeeding. It was really amazing, we learned that everyone in Gallito loves cough drops, and I mean everyone, whether they had a cough or not... But I guess I would want them too if I could never go out and buy them for myself

The bible school lesson yesterday, stayed in tune with our theme this week of God is love, we used 1 John 4:10 " this is love; not that we love God but that he loves us..." we made for projects the one I worked on was one large heart, that the children got to decorate with crayons, and stickers and tissue paper :) it was supposed to represent God's heart, the second project was to decorate a pair of heart shaped glasses, we used these glasses to admire all the wonderfully things God's love had provided for us... another project was a paper with a cross, and on that cross a pair of hands holding a heart, on the heart each child wrote their name and underneath the cross on the piece of paper, we wrote God holds my heart in his hands. The final project was to make a heart wreath, because God's love ,like a cicrle, has no end... It was really cool to watch them enjoy making each project :)

And it was even cooler that I was put in charge of teaching the lesson, which provided me the opportunity to have over 42 little Peruvian children circle up around me and attentively listen to me read them scripture, and talk with them about the love God freely gives to us... It was an amazing experience that I will treasure forever :)

Here our some pictures from our first day...















More to follow:)

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Location:Iquitos Peru :)