Showers? Who needs those?

Hola! Sorry about taking so long to blog. We are in the tiniest little town ever, and I think Im on the only computer here. After two flights, a two hour wait for vans, 10 rounds of catchphrase and a 3 hour van ride later, we made it to our home base. We call it Chill, mostly because none of us can actually pronounce it correctly. The houses are primative, but large and open. Each team has their own house. The white team has a bigger house, but it has no shower, and a toliet that doesnt flush. The green teams house has a toliet that flushes, which is really awesome. Most of the guys hung up their hammocks outside, and sleep there each night. The girls are holding down camp from the inside, and donating any towels or extra blankets we have to keep them warm. Everyone is plenty safe, warm, and well fed.
Yesterday was a very long, but fun day as well. We started with breakfast that a church made for us of beans, meat, and peppers. Yum! Everyone is being a great sport with the food. We headed over to a church, and put on 3 Sunday school lessons and a VBS. We also got the front row seats in the main service of their worship service. It was like a massive party! Culture shock officially set in now as we watched dancers with flags, ribbons, and tamborines dance for an hour straight, the praise band played defeaning music, and every now and then a tube of confetti was shot off and rained down on us. It was rather humbling to see them worship God with such enthusiam. I wanted to wrap up those dancers and take them back to the CHCS chapel, and show everyone how to really enjoy themselves.
After this the two teams split up. The white team headed out to a tiny concrete church and put on a short service. Then we headed up to another village, and ended up getting about 250 people to come and watch an open air street service that we put on. We pulled out all the stops with puppets, all the dramas we knew, and a great message by Patton. Our first run through of El Mundo went great, complete with a drunk mimicking every scence, shattering a beer bottle, and me accidently kicking Nick pretty hard in the gut.
After all of this, Mrs. Harryman gave an altar call, and we spent a good hour praying for whoever came. These people would come up to us, ramble on in Spanish, ask rayer. The best thing was, after we prayed for them, they would turn around and lay their hands on us and pray for us! What a humbling experience. After here, we all dragged our sore, dusty, and tired bodies back to the houses and crashed for the night.
Today is going to be about the same thing. We travel around putting on services and VBS programs. I know that the Green Team is at a kindergarden right now. As for us...WE GET TO TAKE SHOWERS!! We invaded the Green Teams house (well, the girls did), and one by one we are washing our hair in a bucket out back, then rinsing off in frigid water. Its rather glorious! This is the house with the computer, so Im going to leave the blog here for the other team to write as well. We left the guys heating up water in a massive pot out in the courtyard to take bucket showers. Im sure they are having a little man fest with that.
Please keep praying for us! Everyone has great attitudes and is still feeling pretty good. However, we are lacking on energy. The food is great, and the teams have never been closer...literally. They pack us pretty tightly in the vans.
We miss you all, and will write as often as we can. However, I dont see another chance to write or take showers in the near future...most likely until Friday night when we get home. But hey! We are just building tons and tons of character! Keep us in your prayers. And sorry about all the typos. Over wright got turned on, and because everything is in Spanish, we have no idea how to turn it off. Hopefully that will explain the random words missing. Oh! And I cant find the apostrophe either. :)

Love you Mom and Dad!
Bethany