Day 2: 4 weddings!

Hola Amigos! Greetings from Guatemala! It's Taylor here and I am going to update you on our first full day in Tactic! Our week started off sunny, but now it has been quite rainy in the afternoons. Today was such an exciting day! We got to be a part of an exciting church service, followed by four different weddings in the same service! The special thing about this church service is that it was the first Chruch service to happen in new church, with the funds entirely raised by the Guatemalan communities! 

It was an honour to be apart of such a big event, and it was it really cool to see how "on fire" these people are for God! The service was all in Spanish, Thankfully we had great translators to help us keep up with what was going on! After church we had enjoyed a wonderful meal prepared by many ladies of the communities. It was a Guatemalan soup with chicken, and gnocchis that were wrapped in banana leaves and made entirely out of corn! Following the meal we got to spend some time with the kids that had come for the service, and just take some time to enjoy the outside. Later on we set out to see 4 of the 6 schools that Impact Ministries runs. Our fabulous driver named Oscar, took us around to each school and told us the whole story behind each school! Unfortunately it was Sunday, and there were no kids in schools that we got to meet. Afterwards we came back to the guest house that we are staying at to meet up with the  family that is also staying in Tactic and doing some work along side us! We took a drive into Tactic, where we would meet at an Impact Ministries workers' house to make a Guatemalan dinner ourselfs! It was quite the experience! We started by taking corn that had been soaked in water and lye down to the mill, where it went through the grinder and formed dough. We took it back to the house and made a traditional Guatemalan snack for supper. We took the dough and rolled it out into tortillas. We added cheese to the centre and folded it over, deep frying it in a large pan over the fire. 

This was probably my highlight of the night, getting to experience making real Guatemalan food along with great company. To finish off the evening Alisia, the hostest lady, shared her testomy with us how God has done wonderful things in her life. It was really eye opener and and "cool to see that while they were faithful to God,  he was faithful to them."  So that completes of first day and Tactic! We have an early morning tomorrow, so stay tuned for what exciting will happen next!

-Taylor 

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