Happy Graduation

We attended Francisco's "high school" graduation today.  This GED-like program basically met all-day every Saturday for two years.  There were 28 graduates today and their ages ranged from 18 to 40+.  There were young, single moms and middle-aged dads and everything in between. It was a day of celebration for the graduating class and we were happy to be a part of it.

Francisco gave the prayer to start the ceremony

Banana split to celebrate

Thursday in Pictures

A Perfect Cinnabon

Francisco is a young (23) friend from our church in Lourdes, and he is faithful to help at all of the campaigns, especially when it comes to helping Stephen roll up the inflatable.  He has also been great to ride with us and guide us to the right location when we're on a campaign in El Salvador.  

Each night during the March campaign he (and several others) would help roll up the inflatable at the end of the night and Stephen would encourage them to make "a cinnabon perfecta" (a perfect cinnabon), in other words to roll the inflatable up straight and tight.  After 2-3 nights of this, Francisco came to me and asked, "why does Stephen say to make a perfect cinnabon when we roll up the inflatable?"  Kind of cracked me up that Stephen was trying to provide him a word picture of the process, when, in reality, Francisco had no idea what he was talking about.  Have you ever tried to explain a cinnamon roll to someone who has never seen one?  Since there is a Cinnabon store in the MultiPlaza mall  in San Salvador, I think Stephen thought that the kids would understand; but Francisco had never been there.  

Yesterday, they took all of us gringos to one of the bigger malls here in Managua and we found a Cinnabon kiosk.  Here are the pictures we took to show Francisco:

We bought a Cinnabon classic and gave it to him before the campaign last night. He thought it was quite tasty and now completely understands what Stephen means when he says to roll up the inflatable "como un cinnabon perfecta."