Today we got up around 7:15am and got ready to go to Puyo. We had several people willing to serve making lunches, moving luggage and packing our donated items. After breakfast and some instructions we were on the road around 8:30am.
Kristen had a rough start to the morning as she wasn’t feeling so good. The first hour was a tough drive for her but she did feel better toward later afternoon. Becca and Kara also didn’t feel great during certain parts of the trip as well. Lots of prayer was lifted up for them.
We had a beautiful drive through the mountains and amazing views throughout our day including some beautiful waterfalls. By the way we had to stop about 10 minutes into our trip this morning for Aaron Mertens and Lucas Arneson because they had to go to the bathroom. I forgot to remind them J
We stopped in a city park for lunch and had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. While we were waiting to go a game of ultimate Frisbee broke out and was going well until Kyle decided to dive into a metal basket. Thankfully he didn’t hit it straight on and was OK.
Our next stop was puyo and we arrived around 4pm. We were more than a little surprised when we got to our hostel and it’s a very nice hostel. We were expecting to rough it but our rooms are very nice and everyone has a nice bed and shower (2 or 3 per room). Our hosts are treating us very well.
At 6pm we went to dinner with Dario (he is our host for the next 4 days in Puyo and is funny and a treat to be around) at one of his cousins restaurants. It was a very nice restaurant and we were served carrot soup, papaya juice, rice, fish (some plates still had the head on which brought mixed reactions) and fried papaya’s. We had fresh fruit for desert and was a great supper.
We than headed to the church in Puyo for a mission service they were having. Our main church that we are partnering with is very mission focus and they started the goal of starting one new church a year but have upped it to two churches a year they want to start. This evening was to help them raise some funds toward that. It was suppose to start around 7:30 but was after 8pm before it started. We found out this evening that services go a little longer here. It was a three-hour service and included lots of different things.
We started with giving a small greeting from our team and had lots of different elements within the service. Aaron Mertens and Phil Stebbing gave a personal testimony and did a great job. We also had 3 testimonies from their congregation, a guest preacher, several songs, slideshows, black light theater, drama group and I am sure there was something else that I forgot. Our team did a great job staying away after a long day of travel and not being able to understand a lot of what was said. It ended around 11pm and they served some empanadas with syrup and they were very good. They also had some different things for us to try including some fruit drink, a spiced chicken cooked in leaves and some potato with an interesting texture.
We loaded up and headed back to the hostel. I can tell tonight that they were tired and we are at that half way point where its easy to start getting irritated with each other. Please pray for good attitudes, a good night sleep, that our team would continue to mingle and get to know each other even better. Tomorrow will be one of our longer days with a lot of construction work on our docket.
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