Today I went with Bro. Johnny Tucker's group to Amor del Nino to pick up 15 kids to take them to the zoo. Amor del Nino takes in mostly children with some sort of handicap. It was so much fun getting to walk around the zoo with the kids that we were able to bring. It worked out so that each of us got a child. I got to spend the morning with a little girl named Adrianna. She is four years old and of course she was such a cutie! Most of her left leg had to be removed, so she has a prosthetic leg. I realized through spending the morning with Adriana that the zoo is not a very accommodating place for people with handicaps. She couldn’t see a lot of animals because she rode in a stroller and couldn’t see over the shrubs. We ended the fun morning with lunch at Pollo Campero. The kids like the fast food chicken restaurant better than McDonald’s!
Things are going well up on the hill. We only have two weeks left. Bro. Jerry will be here tomorrow with a group from Friendship and then the next week Bro. Teddie will be here with a group made up of mostly college people from Alabama and Michigan. Pray for us as we finish the summer. Pray that we finish strong. It is crunch time for me, there are still several things that I have got to get done before I leave. One of them is shopping for a Quincenaros dress with one of the girls from Casa Aleluya. The Quincenaros celebration is huge in Guatemala, it is done on a girl’s 15^th Birthday. Casa Aleluya has one Quincenaros celebration a year. There are about 20 girls that turn 15 each year, so you can imagine how hard it would be to celebrate every time a girl turned 15. All of the girls turning 15 wear what we would consider a prom dress. One of the girls who is turning 15, Dikla, and my momma are very close so mom wanted to get her dress for her. It will be a special afternoon for Dikla!