¡verde!

Wow, this past week has been very busy! We've had two spring break missions teams come in and leave. It seems that both had great trips. Then we had another team get here the other night and they just left today for Huarochiri. Please keep them in your prayers this week as they are traveling. When Claudia went to get the bus tickets, the guy at the bus station asked her why would she ever think about going to Huarochiri this time of the year. Evidently the rains have been heavy and the roads are not great. So please pray for travel mercies. They are traveling there today and will be returning to Lima Friday morning.

So last night we had a St. Patrick's Day party with the English Fellowship. It was a lot of fun! We got to share a little bit of our culture and also explain what the holiday meant to us (basically just that you wear green to avoid being pinched) and that we were not celebrating the saint...which also lead to more opportunities with some about our beliefs on the saints. We were quite surprised that everyone showed up in green with the exception of one guy. I had been encouraging everyone to dress as crazy as they could. I honestly thought most wouldn't even wear green, but they proved me wrong! We also had a scavenger hunt around the area. We came up with a list of things they had to go and do. Each team had a missionary with a digital camera as they went around looking for specific things and then taking pictures with them. One task was to find the two new missionaries, Kyle and Shaila. No one had met them and so they weren't sure who they were looking for. We told them they would be near the beach, but then they had to walk around looking for them. Junior, a guy in one of the groups actually interrupted a couple making out to ask if they were Kyle and Shaila! I couldn't believe he did that, but I'm glad to say that they were not the hidden missionaries. No one that came had ever heard of a scavenger hunt but they all seemed to really enjoy it. I think we'll have to plan some more in the future.

Here is most of the group all in our green. Claudia even taught me how to knit, so I made a green scarf for the occasion.