Our second day of ministry began where we toured just two days prior – at the CFC site. As the men on our team went to build another kitchen for a family, the ladies (and Paul) held another Princess Seminar. The dynamics of this group was much different than the one on Monday since everyone was able to speak Spanish and we did not need a translator. The ladies were cutting up and joking around with Raquel and really enjoying themselves which was fun to see. At the end of Raquel's presentation, we all took pictures with our princess crowns on and the one of the ladies told our group that they are not used to being "pampered" and that they were taken aback by how we treated them and loved on them. It was very sweet as nearly every lady in the group went around and hugged each of us (including the kids) and wanted to take pictures with us.
After the seminar, we decided to walk back to the Mission House since it was only about a half a mile away. As we walked, a large group of kids started to come into the road from a soccer field nearby and excitedly shouted “GRINGOS” (which is what the people of Guatemala call us Americans). Many of them just walked along side of us grinning and giggling to each other. We stopped to take pictures near the beautiful, colorful cemetery at the end of the road and we stopped again for more pictures on a hilltop overlooking Comitancillo. It was nice to get out while the sun was out and just walk around watching the people going about their everyday lives.
After lunch, we went back to the CFC site for VBS. We did the same story and breakout sessions with crafts and games for the kids. At the end, we had 23 kids make decisions for Christ. As soon as the kids and parents left, we immediately began setting up for the church service. We ended up with time to ourselves, though, as we waited for the people to come back, and Bill decided to put on some music from his iTunes playlist. Of course, when he jokingly put on "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", all of the girls went to the front of the room and started dancing and singing along. The dancing and singing continued on for a good 30 minutes or more (and some of the guys even went up for some fun) before we finished setup for the church service.
People started arriving soon after (familiar faces that had come to the morning seminar and kids who had just come to VBS) and we all sang worship songs together (though most of our team butchered the proper pronunciation of most of the songs since they were in Spanish). We then led the parents in singing some of the songs we’d sang with their kids just a couple of hours previously and the kids came up to help us sing them. Afterwards, Pastor Bill gave the message while Pastor Pier translated and he taught the people an English word – FROG. He asked them to say it out loud (which they all got a kick out of) and to remember that FROG stands for Fully Rely On God. To help remember the English Word, the team had made bracelets with the words FROG and SAPO (Sapo is Spanish for Frog) for each person. It was a sweet time of fellowship with the people of Comitancillo.
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