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Well, I missed a couple of days there! But, as we all know, if I had time to blog everyday, my life would be too boring to write about!

Saturday was beautiful, but then again, so are all the other days down here! After a meeting with several other teens that will be working with the kids and puppets for VBS to practice our lines, one family invited Jared and I to go to the park. Mr. and Mrs. Martinez, their kids Cecleli (18), Nestór (15), Raynaldo (12) were great hosts. After an exciting (and exhausting) game of basketball, I politely accepted a bowl of pozóle (hominy in a chicken broth type soup) and enthusiastically accepted the second bowl!!! We kids walked a couple of blocks to get some "fresco" (coke, pop, candy, anything in the shop that looked good!) and I peppered Nestr with questions about Spanish. He has studied several years of English and understands much of what I say, but he won't speak...We're working on getting him to go to GBS! lol

A darling baby girl was dedicated on Sunday morning ( the proud family pictured below), after which Mrs. Crystal Mason accompanied my violin on the piano...unfortunately, I had to improvise some after my E string decided that it had spent its last day on the bridge of my violin! sniff!

I think Bro. Burch thoroughly enjoyed this ceremony!

This morning, we went to the church to prepare props and run over parts with several of the other workers. Juggling was the main entertainment in addition to some soccer tricks...more on that later :)

Below (listed left to right):

Myself, Ximena, Jared, Ray (mentioned above), and Danny.

This Darling is called Ximena (pronounced he-men-a); she's very sweet...and opinionated!

This is Alexandra (A-leh-han-dra) or Alex...she is very talented with a puppet!

As is this cheery guy, Pablo.

A couple of our wonderful workers... (Margaret Velázquez and Danny and Ximena's mom).

As you can see below, our theme is kind of a medieval castle/school idea. The lessons will be focused on the life of Joseph and relationships with God, family, friends, and one's self.Jared's entertainment can get much more complex than this 3-ball routine but I'll try to get a video of that later.

Poor "Hermana Lety" (Sis. Burch) was rather exhausted this evening, even more than the rest of our bedraggled troupe. Oh, well. A good night of sleep should help that!

Oh, the camera was kindly supplied by Bro. and Sis. Burch! Thanks so much!