CHANGUINOLA!!!!!!!!

12.28.2010

Greetings from Changuinola, Panama!! We are so very excited to finally be at our "home" for the next week!
After breakfast at the seminary and a beautiful double rainbow we left for our excursion to Panama. Our bus ride to Changuinola was pretty much uneventful...Abel, our bus driver and his brother, Leo drove us through the rainforest to get here. The rainforest was....well.....rainly! :o)
Of course we had to walk across the "trusty" bridge by sharing it with 18 wheelers and others. Charlotte received a shoe shine by a boy named Wilbur, so we had Cabot Wilbur get his photo with him. He even had a Superman shirt on....
We arrived to Changuinola to find more rain and some new signs, businesses. Those who have been on the trip will be glad to know they have a new pizzeria in town!! Just down the road on the way to the church...needless to say, there will probably be a food review coming up! :o)
We had dinner and church service with the church people. There are many new faces in the church! Praise God!! Pastor Nieves and family were there along with Silvia, Lesbia, and several others.
We will begin work on the church tomorrow morning. Our work will consist of sanding and priming/painting the railing, painting some of the bottom floor (bathroom and office), and making a cement slab to the entrance of the bottom floor and then tiling it. They also will be getting windows for the upstairs.
We have many plans for this week, including a Chiquita tour!! Please continue to pray for our group and we will continue to pray for you as we ring in the New Year!!!

Adios!!