i figured it out

well, i figured out how to make the @ symbal...you have to hit the alt key, and then 6 and 4, on the number pad, so strange.

forgive the poor grammar and punctuation, but i do not have much time and as i said before, this keyboard is very weird, and if i try to slow down to type correctly, i will run out of time.

hannah´s hope orphanage is awesome. they do a wonderful job there with the kiddos. there are 120 babies, and they are all supposed to go to homes but the paperwork is not done yet. with the problems now in guatemala, it may be a while, or never. the older kids, 2 up are pretty much stuck in the system unless they have an adoption started on them already, unless the country gets back on board with adoptions. they have to get some certifications updated...huge mess here.

we went to the ghetto today........this was the real ghetto. words canot really describe it, and i cannot post photos from here, but you will see them soon. we handed out 150 plus bibles, toys, candy, etc, and it was the bibles that they were chasing us down to ask for. it was awesome. we also had a bunch of tracts so those that did not get bibles at least got that. there was one man who had received a tract and we passed him for a second time and he was reading it and crying. we all went to him and talked to him through one of our locals friends who can sort of speak english and from what we can tell he received christ today. it was awesome.....

those people live there, with hardly anything, yet they are so happy! it is awesome. i am sure there is danger down there, but if given the chance, i´d stay down there for a few days straight if i could. the looks on their faces when we gave them stuff was priceless! they TRUELY appreciated it. and they also just really loved the fact that we went there for them.

we also went into the dump today. there are lots of people who live down there..whole families. the dump is actualy secured by a guard, and we tried and tried to get him to let us in...i believe there was even the talk of money changing hands, and they still would not let us in. then someone told us about another spot where we could get in, sort of, and the people came flocking to us. we had this huge, and i mean huge basket of bread that we had purchased....hand made bread from someone in the ghetto that we had paid the day before to make. the bread as still warm. we gave that out to the people in the dump, and we also had more bibles for them...and it was so cool. they were more hungry for the word of God than for the bread! we were out of bibles in no time..then we just took the bread and some tracts and continued to feed their physical bodies, and hopefuly they will spread about the bibles and their spiritual bodies will be fed as well. there were whole familes living there.....kids were dirty, but again, happy!

at one point we were in zone 3, will explan more about that later, but zone 3 is the most dangerous. that is where they dump is. we were in our tour bus and we had to get into a small van...i think there were 16 in there! it was bottoming out on the speedbumps. we ask why we had to get in there and it was because the closer we got to the dump, if the people could see our white faces in the tour bus, they could possibly follow and surround us and rob us..so we were in the tiny van, with tinted windows...it was all surreal....the bribing, arguing, stares, etc. oh and we are gringas...white americans...that is what they call us

um...sorry for the rambling but i just want to get this on here as fast as i can, and i have so much to say!

i did get my luggage back this afternoon..i am finally wearing clean clothes!! actually, i did have a clean shirt each day..one that someone let me borrow and two that one of the ladies insisted on buying me in the market yesterday. the group that i am with are all great...they are crazy, in love with the lord, and a lot of fun. the more tired we get, the more crazy it gets! ha!

we have been hanging with some people who live in the ghetto...marvin, wife ingrid, son alexandro, and elmer. elmer used to be a part of the ms13 gang, and if you have ever heard of them as i have before i came here, you will know that the only way out of that gang is death or going to prision....well everyone in his gang was killed at one point and he was the only survivor....that was his out, at the time he did not want out, was looking for a new gang to get with and then through an awesome experience he found the lord..and i can tell you that later. i am running out of time........he has an ms 13 tattoo on his chest and he can never let anyone see it or he would likely be killed if the wrong person found out. also, if a man or woman in this country has a tatoo at all they can not get a job, or if they lie and are found out they get fired. and sometimes they can be ask to strip just so that their boss can look for a tatoo if they are mad at them and want a reason to fire them!

i have to run...sorry........tomorrow we are going to aide some mudslide victims.......

love you all!! oh, and i do not have time to proof read this..........so, you are getting it raw!