4 de Agosto

It’s been a very chill day, as Sabbaths should be. I must say, however, I do miss the aspect of church, worship and reverence at least once a week. We got a little of that down by the playa today. There were a couple good sized groups worshipping in the morning. We’re pretty sure they aren’t Adventists because the song service had a trap set and because we asked a few people and no one mentioned any names close to SDA. It was a monumental day for my fishing pole. I finished construction on it today. Maybe sometime this week I can take it for a test run. We were excited to discover more familiar faces are in our midst. Alan Newbold and his friend Sam are in Pana tonight. We finally caught up with them around 10:00 this evening and discovered that they are in the exact room that we stayed in for three weeks at villa Lupita. We have made plans to visit the large market in Chichicastinango tomorrow and do some shopping there. The word for the day is “Averiguas.” It means “to find out” in Spanish.

P.S. I forgot to mention the super cool gift that we decided to get our host family as an expression of our gratitude for their hospitality. There is a huge concert scheduled for Monday in Pana. Two big Christian Latino artists are performing at a large church. Ever since we arrived magda and Theodoro have been mentioning how cool of a concert it is going to be so we decided to surprise them and get them tickets so they could have a night off and enjoy it with each other. We presented the tickets tonight and they were pretty excited. The artists are Annette Moreno and Jardin.