Peru Day 4 Tuesday

This is the day that a lot of people got pretty sick. A few people stayed back and those that were healthy helped at Carmen's house. Miguel, Dan and I went to the market that morning too. These two teenage girls followed us around for about half an hour. They liked my blue eyes they said. It was pretty funny.


We went back to Carmen's house and poured a foundation. We had to mix the concrete with a shovel. It's pretty hard work, but we had José to show us how. While we were doing that Seth, Jodi and Emily painted the house blue. Jodi had a chance to share with some people who came by. She invited them to church as well.We went back after lunch and got the rest of the foundation done and the front of the house painted.

At night we went up to the church. The deaf group put on a mime show for us. It was really amazing. They did a comedy routine and some of them juggled. The deaf people in Peru often times can't find jobs. So they put on mime shows to make some money. Pictured in the white coat is Cocoa. He is immensely talented and has a gift for physical comedy.





Then the deaf pastor Javier shared a message. It was hard to understand because there was two layers of translation going on: one to Spanish and then to English. It was really great to see how animated he was though. It was very emotional and filled with expression. (Javier is in the center with the white shirt in the group picture.) We then ate dinner in the church and headed home.