Belize Day 6

As of today, we have officially experienced the 2 extremes of Belizean weather… HOT HOT and WET WET… Our first 4 days were HOT HOT, followed by 2 days of CLOUDY YET STILL HOT, and TODAY it was WET WET… Our day started with shovelling dirt… Afer lunch the torrential downpour began and the dirt turned to MUD… Sticky, heavy, and very slippery!

Today, we almost finished shoveling and leveling the dirt in preparation for laying the cement. Please pray for no rain Thursday and Friday this week, so we can get the cement floor laid in the preschool. Andrew, Colin, and Brad did a great job digging a 4ftx4ft hole in the mucky clay for the septic tank. On their last wheelbarrow load with the dirt Andrew slipped on the mucky, slimy dirt and had a great mud bath! Who says you need to go to the spa?!!!

At lunch we fed 150 of the local school children a hot dog lunch. Many of these kids don’t get lunch and for all of them it was a huge treat!

This evening we had kids club with the children, ages 5and up. We did a teaching on David & Goliath about overcoming obstacles. The game and craft were a hit with the kids, but it was a little challenging to keep their attention at times. We did some of our team’s favorite children’s bible songs. The kids seemed to know them all even better than we did! Jake, Don, and Uzo did a great job acting out the story. All in all it went well. Please pray that the seeds depoisited in the hearts of these children will grow and flourish. Mike & Vicki, the missionaries here in Belize, are starting ‘SunRock Kids Camp’ with the children every Wednesday throughout the summer months, starting next week.

With the rain has come some flying termites that shed their wings wherever they land! Some of the team are less than impressed by these new visitors that get in everywhere!  Continuing on the bug note, the guys found a scorpion in their cabin yesterday and we had a run in with terantula at the Blue Hole on Sunday!