This morning we went ino Heredia and helped with the fund raiser they were doing to raise money to build a Recreation Center in that poor area. I think the Catholic Church was sponsoring the event, it was quite a big to-do, very organized with lots and lots of people volunteering. Our group went out along with a lot of other people to ask people for donations. I talked to a Costa Rican kid who was 19 and was with our group helping out today and he was telling me how the Costa Ricans don't like the Nicaraguans which 80% of the community we were fund raising for is Nicaraguan. He said if the people on the streets we were asking for donations from knew it was a fund raiser for Nicaraguans they wouldn't give. It's just interesting how no matter where you go there are persecuted minorities.
About 3 this afternoon we loaded up the van from the base and headed to the Airport. We stopped at McDonalds on the way and got that for our dinner. Now we are hanging out in the airport waiting to board our plane for our home away from home, Guatemala. Then at 4:30 in the morning we will head out for our newest and I hope LAST GREAT ADVENTURE, a remote village in Northern Guatemala that will take 2 days to travel there. Many of the kids there suffer from a rare generic disorder that causes cancer if they go out in the sun. This is the only known community in the world that has so many with this rare disorder which causes them to die young.
Two weeks from today, if God's plan for my life lines up with mine, I will be sitting in my house in Utah relaxing, HALLELUJAH!!!
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