July 5th and 6th

Hola!

It's Jasmine reporting from sunny Ensanada~

The past few days have just been amazing! Yesterday (the 5th) we went to Sunday morning church service at Iglesia Bautista Jezreel with Pastor Manuel. Although the church was small, the enthusiasm and passion of the people surpassed that of the bigger churches I have been to. For worship, Pastor Manuel would just break out in song and the rest of the congregation would sing at the top of their lungs along with him. He had no guitar, no bass, no piano keyboard, no drums, nor back-up singer, but it was beautiful just to hear the voices of those praising and worshipping Jesus! After worship he read Ezekiel 43:1-3 to us (I gotta check my notebook to make sure that was it >.<) and then we performed some dramas. Alex also gave a testimony! Then Fred gave a message about "love" stories from the Bible. [more details will be added later... when I get my notebook; hahaha]

After the church service, they made lunch for us. They made fish, beef and bean burritos with the best tortillas I have ever had in my life! Everything tasted amazing and it was all homemade! =D Then we played with the kids. We taught them how to play "Boom-chicaka-boom-boom" and "Ping-pong". They taught us the pikachu rock/paper/scissors game, duck-duck-goose in Spanish and some other games. Then we came back to base and ate a cooler dinner at the beach where Joyce and Liya had their hair braided :) pictures will come later xP

Today we held a VBS at the soup kitchen we worked at on Satuday. We opened with singing and prayer led by Pastor Manuel. Then we had a puppet show were all of the puppetiers had no idea what was going on but I still think the kids liked it ^^ Then Fred gave a short message about boomerangs, led some games, had some clown skits, and then had the kids to crafts. After that we gave the kids our fruit and pringles and they loved it :) Then we hung around a bit and just hung out with the kids. [sorry in a rush... will finish later]