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Wednesday

We started the day again with a 7.00 am departure from the mission house to head to the village of Buena Vista.  Today the whole team was able to travel together with some missionaries some of us had not yet met.  The ride to Buena Vista was filled with laughter and story telling by us as well as the Guetamalans. It was wonderful to see the smiling faces of the children and all the people when we arrived.   We were able to finish the roof of the structure and start forming the floor for concrete tomorrow.  Some in our group went on some home visits within the village and spread the Lords word while helping the folks with different needs.  The neat part about todays work is the people of the village were having their church services in the same place we were working.  While I´m sure it wasn´t ideal for them to have to deal with our noise they continued to worship which brought joy to all of us working on the structure. 

I feel the word to best describe today is relationship.  Today as well as the last two but more so today it seems we were able to form new relationships with great people doing Gods work here in Guetamala.  We were able to share very special stories and experiences in our lives with people we had just met.  While maybe in our day to day life we wouldn´t be as open with strangers.  In this experience it seems God has brought us all together and that makes it so much easier to open up.   It is fun also to see how many things are alike between life in Gueatemala and the U.S.  It is also fun to see how many things are different.  The one thing that will never change no matter where we go is Gods love for us all.  And that my friends is the greatest thing of all.

I would like to take a second to wish my beautiful wife Alyssa a Happpy Third Wedding Anniversary.  I love you sweetheart and will see you soon.

Mick   

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