Rain Rain Go Away, Come Again Another Day...

Week five is just about ready to come to a close, and it's honestly been the most uneventful week of the trip so far. Monday was a normal work day, just pruning more trees. Starting Tuesday though, it started to rain and we weren't able to get any work done. It then continued to rain for the next 4 days. When Friday rolled around we had only gotten one row of trees done when the week before we had done about twelve. It got really boring trying to find things to do around the barn.

For the weekend we joined the girls and Darwin at a church close to the farm in order to help them out with their children's and youth programs. The girls spent all of Friday walking around the adjacent neighborhoods telling people about them and that they should come on Saturday. Saturday morning we had the children's program and about 20 kids showed up for it. We played some games with them and it ultimately turned to soccor by the end. It was a lot of fun.

Saturday night was the youth group and that was different story. We went in to the church, opened the doors and sang songs so that people would know that we were there. It ended up just being Miriam, Thirza, Darwin, and us singing songs for 45 minutes or so. We learned that Uruguay is called the graveyard of South America for this reason. People just don't seem to be open to hearing about the gospel. Everyone is comfortable with where they are and no one thinks that they need God. A plus to this is that all of the Christians here are on fire and they don't seem to be discouraged by this. Please pray for all the ministries here and people can start to be more open to the gospel.

After the weekend and all the rain it's just been back on the farm and back to pruning. Today alone we did twice as many trees as we did in the entire week last week. So it will be more of that now until the weekend. This weekend we are joining the girls for a four day trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina and we are excited about it. Check back next week for more exciting manventures of Chris and Dan!