Psalm 34:6 In my desperation I prayed, and the Lord listened; He saved me from all my troubles.
Well, hello everyone! I hope you had a wonderful day today. I am also wishing my chorus an “Ola!”. So sorry to miss Andrew’s last evening with us for a while.
We had a pretty packed day ourselves. Up and at ‘em at 6:30am (I was looking for coffee), breakfast at 7am. Bags of food and boxes of clothing were packed into the van for today’s afternoon visit to Marlenie’s barrio (village).
Once we arrived at the Tabernaculo Oasis de Esperanza, we found the ladies and men setting up the last few tables. Within a few minutes, we were surrounded with appreciative smiles and ladies showing us what they had done. My crocheters had our table back and 2 new ladies wanted to learn. So I was setting up the first two, Maykeling and Mariana with their next project. Then the two new students today, Maria and Benedicia (Blessing), got the first lesson from yesterday.
It was noon way too soon and time to go home for lunch. Because I will be helping at the barrios today, I needed to give the ladies work to keep them going and to ensure they would pack up the crochet area and get the bag put away.
Lunch was a lovely meal. Then it was time for Sharon, Dolores, Joanella and Samuel to go back to the church for the sewing and weaving. Once the van was back again, Annette, Don, Kurt, Paula, Dave, Pastor Ernan (PAN Administrator) and Jonathan (translator) and I piled in to go to the barrio.
Marlenie is the matriarch of this barrio. Paula and Dave (on our team) are like family here since they were on the team that built their church and became very attached to them. They have kept in touch over the years and visit when they can. Such a warm wonderful welcome we received.
After we were all in the church, their Pastor spoke a few words of welcome, Annette said a few words and introduced the team, and then Pastor Ernan said a few words and then read off the names as we distributed the food first. Then we brought in the clothes and opened up the boxes and we went through the process again. Each family was able to choose 10 items from the boxes. This makes sure that there is enough for everyone. They were all very appreciative of all that we brought for them as well.
It was a lovely visit and a blessing to all. I was very glad to be a part of it. It was difficult to leave but we will be back again on Saturday for a wedding. Looking forward to it.
Once we got back home to Quinta Jardin Shalom, everyone started to skitter back to their rooms since we had an hour before supper. Paula and I decided we would repack the boxes for tomorrow and load up the food bags as well. We had all the boxes reorganized and packed back in the van and some of the food bags before a few people noticed what we were doing and came to help. All done and ready for tomorrow...and just in time for supper!
We had a lovely treat of pasta and a cream sauce with mushrooms. Very nice. Have I mentioned that
Carlos and Marta do a wonderful job planning and executing the meals. Very flavourful.
After supper, I finally headed for the shower. And a relaxing evening with you. Hope all is well at home. Blessings to all.
Love Suzie
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