Finally here!!!

Picture 1 - Marie with Neomi, the youngest orphan at Talita Cumi. Picture 2 - Playing getting acquainted games with the children at Talita Cumi. Picture 3 - Mallory FINALLY met Juan de Dios! Picture 4 - Having lunch with the children at Talita Cumi. Picture 5 - Pushing the bus to get it started. Picture 6 - They had two micros at the airport to take us to the hotel. Here we are loading suitcases on top of one of the micros.

Wow more than 36 hours after leaving Cimarron we're finally getting ready to sleep. What a long day of delays in airports to running to meet the next plane only to sit and wait again. Then a 10 hour flight till Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Praise God We have wonderful bus drivers. But let me tell you it's nothing like how we drive. The first bus ride we all had to pile out of the bus before we tipped over. This was a true experience of Bolivian culture. Along with the next ride pushing the bus (Micro) to jump start it.
The day started off late and we hurried into our rooms for quick showers and then to orientation. Lunch was spent at the orphanage with homemade pizza made by the kids. It was wonderful. After lunch we played some get to know you games with the kids. This was a really great time for me. These kids are so affectionate. They were so excited to see us. We were all assigned children to pray for and they prayed for us. So today they had notes with our names on then and they were looking for us. I loved to connect with Juan Carlos and Fanni. These kids loved to be loved on.
Later we headed out to look at the job sites for tomorrow. This was also a great experience. Just to see the faith in God these people have and the gratitude for the help they'll receive.
Supper was had at a little "pollo" restaurant. Chicken, rice, french fries & fried bananas along with GREAT tasting coke cola!!
Now it's late and we're all ready to crash. It has been a very LONG day and we are all exhausted.
Please pray for tomorrow's activities we will be starting the first day of VBS and there's a chance for rain all day tomorrow. (the VBS will be held out doors)
God has been good and provide great things for us here. Pray tomorrow we will be rested and very effective as we begin our work and build more relationships with kids we can't communicate with. Although we do have some great bilingual translators following us! Good night and God Bless. ~ Laura