Hola!

Hola from Guatemala!

It is almost 8:30pm Guatemalan time and we're all turning in. We are beat! Our travel to Guatemala was effortless, well, minus a fairly long check-in at DCA! You should have seen all are bags lined up ready to be checked; hope someone got a picture. But we breezed through security, and our flight left on time. We arrived in Texas, enjoyed our last American meal at Einstein Bros and boarded our flight to Guatemala, which was delayed an hour. Once in Guatemala, we spent about a half hour trying to exchange our American dollars for Quetzels (sp?) and were preparing for a long wait through custom. To our extreme delight, there was no one, and I mean NO ONE, in the customs line. And our bags were waiting for us at baggage claim. No waiting whatsoever! (Thank you, Jesus!)

Our guide from the Potter House was at the aiport to greet us with two vans...one for us, and one for our bags! After leaving the airport, we headed straight to the Potter's House right at the base of the city dump. There are really no words to describe the scene we witnessed; there is just nothing most of us could compare it to. The extreme poverty was overwhelming convicting, needless to say.

We were brought into a meeting room shortly after arriving and given an overview of the Potter House organization and prepped for the week ahead of us. It looks like we will be doing everything from building, to participating in their education initiative, to walking door-to-door to share the Gospel and providing them with gifts in the name of Christ. We only spent about 1 1/2 hours at the Potter House before leaving to check in to our hotel (which is extremely quaint and clean)! There is a hotel on sight which served us a nice dinner, although most of us looked as if we could barely keep our eyes open while eating! After dinner we met quickly to go over our schedule for tomorrow morning, pray together as a team, and have a devotion for heading off to sleep. Speaking of sleep, it's about that time...6am is going to come quick!

God is already working and we are excited to see what He has in store during the rest of our time here!

Buenos Noches!

-Jenn Dodd