Long, but good day

Today started with devotions at 8:30--I translated for Guillermo which is a little more stressful than just attending devotions.  To make me more self-conscious, Pam Kern came in while I was translating.  Pam is Pastor Steve Kern's wife; she has been in El Salvador for 30 years and her Spanish is perfect.  She was gracious enough to tell me that I did a good job.

Next stop--a small school in Santa Tecla.  There were only 7 classrooms in the school, and only 5 of them were open for one of our teams to share the lesson on using time wisely.  

After the school, we stopped for lunch at State's Diner, a local restaurant run by a Christian foundation.  We always try to have lunch there when we have a team in town.  It was a special blessing to have Marshall and Betty treated us to lunch, or to breakfast in Stephen's case.

For the first time ever, we had a family festival in the town of Armenia, about 15 minutes outside of Lourdes.  We knew there would be many kids so we took both inflatables.  The crowd was enormous!  There were more than 100 professions of faith tonight!