HIGHlights

I've been asking the team each night to describe the highlight of each day for them. And as I think about my response to this several things come to mind.

It was pretty amazing to have 4 local families willing to host us for dinner last night. So we divided into four teams and just happened to have (enter God) four people with enough spanish to get us through and be able to talk with the families. One group went to a very small home that invited all their relatives over. Not to eat with them as they couldn't afford to feed that many, but to see the gringos. Another group went to the home of a single mother and ate with her and her daughter and a friend.

Last night Krista said Monday was the best day of her life. That's exciting for me to hear from an 18 year old college student who spent the day painting, playing soccer with the neighborhood kids, and leading her group in conversation at dinner with her spanish. I would bet that 90% of the rest of the 18 year olds from the United States would describe the day as their best ever after lounging on the beach or getting an iPhone.

But I will have to answer this question for me with seeing two girls at the Nuevos Amigos site that I have not see for two years. Carolina and Veronica. I had lunch with them over two years ago there. And these are girls with hope thanks to Compassion International and Nuevos Amigos. One wants to be a teacher. The other a nurse. As the day was winding down Christy wanted to pray with the kids and we ended up asking Carolina to pray. And it was in Spanish and not translated and sounded like beautiful music. Maybe that's why in Revelation our prayers are described as being like incense to God. They are transformed into something more than words.

And they transform.