Sunday was a busy but great day. All the staff of Talita Cumi wanted to have a retreat for a day but it's impossible because they always have kids. So our church volunteered to take the kids in individual families for the day. So Grant and I were on to be the teacher's for Sunday school which is normally a challenge. Keep in mind our church is in English so normally we teach Sunday School in English but now we've added 30 kids who only speak Spanish to the mix. So we joined classes so I could talk and then translate for myself. It went well. I sometimes forgot which kid I was speaking to and would choose the wrong language but we got through.
After church we had Edwin who is 6 and Viviana who is either 15 or 18. The orphanage told us she is 18 but she says she is 15....who knows. We went to lunch with the pastor and his kids to Burger King. They had never eaten onion rings and Vivi hated them but Edwin liked them. We were going to go swimming but Edwin fell and cut his foot and had stitches so we couldn't swim. Grant had to carry him all day because they only sent him with one flip flop and so he couldn't walk. We decided to take them to the cinema instead of swimming since Edwin couldn't play much. He had never seen a movie in the cine before. We saw Enchanted the Disney movie except in Spanish. Grant said he didn't mind. The kids loved it. They ate so much popcorn and drank every drop of pop. After the movie we went home and jumped on the trampoline. Edwin couldn't jump so he sat on the trampoline and Grant bounced him and he laughed endlessly for an hour. We took some pictures together and they gave us a thank you card and then it was time to go home. Edwin didn't say a word on the way home and he cried when we got there. He didn't want to leave us. It was sad. It's unbelievable how quickly you can get attached in one day.
I will post some pictures at a later date!
