¡Que viaje! - Photos

What a trip! We're back now and feel like we have learned SO much! We met so many neat people and have made some lasting friendships. We worked with Dale and Nancy Johnson and Trent and Tina Morrow. With the Johnsons, we did construction on a new building for the Bible School and Josh worked mostly on the plumbing. With the Morrows, we did Kid's Quest and children's ministry with the kids out at Colón. Each night the children brought more and more of their friends. I'm not sure how many children accepted Jesus as there savior, but there were a lot! Each of them got brand new Bibles and many started reading them right away.


I got to run the video and record all of the programs. The Morrows have just been offered a spot on a local television station to do children's programming so they are filming all of their programs and editing them so they can air them. How exciting is that? On the last evening, we got to make balloon swords and hats for them as they "put on the full armor of God." It was an awesome experience!






I experienced a little bit of culture shock as I am more used to El Salvador. I'm used to tan people with dark hair and dark eyes and there they are light-skinned and have differing hair colors. Also, the Spanish is very different and took me a little bit to get used to it. Oh, and instead of squelching heat, we had the bitter cold of winter because their seasons are opposite of ours. Instead of the housing you see in El Salvador, they had little brick homes that were almost dollhouse-like in appearance and in the city they lived in high rise apartments. Both Josh and I are used to food being dirt cheap in Latin American countries, yet this country hardly seemed Latin American at all. The food was not only expensive, but similar to what you would eat in the U.S. or Europe. There was a cover to eat at just about any restaurant to use their glasses, silverware, and linens. There were eggs and ham on everything it seemed. Their national dishes where things like a Chivito, a sandwich with ham, eggs, cheese, mayonnaise and whatever else you wanted on it, or a milanesa, which was chicken fried chicken and usually came with an egg, ham and cheese on top. Their salads where lettuceless and you had to ask for tomatoes on sandwiches or salads. It was different, but good. I was itching for some good ol' rice and beans and I'm convinced there are none in the entire country. :) However, the best dish I had came from Pecos Bill's and they had a flatbread pizza with just pesto and fresh tomatoes on it that was to die for! I think I ate it three times while I was there and it still left me wanting for more. The best part was that for that pizza and a bottle of water, it was only $5; the cheapest meal we ate there. Mmm...it makes my mouth water.

We went to Colonia one day which was like our St. Augustine. It was an old fort city with the cobblestone roads and little cottagelike houses. I love places like that. It was fun for me to visit and had great photo ops! It was just beautiful there!

Anyhow, the building was just about completed and the Bible School students were happy to see it! A pastor prophesied that Josh would be back as a missionary to that country one day when we went to church on Sunday. This is after the Morrows had been telling us to stay and work with them. So, who knows...maybe one day we'll go back. Primero Dios! We got to go sight seeing and buy souvenirs like mate (a tea drink that EVERYONE has in their hands at all times) cups on our last day. It was a great trip and we loved learning yet another new culture!