Yesterday was the day of the mountain church. We all woke up and got ready, ate breakfast, and loaded on the bus. Then we drove up to the mountain and we drove as far as we could (the view was amazing!) and then unloaded our many trunks and backpacks of vbs luggage to carry. I don´t think any of us had a clue as to how much we would be walking, but it was a lot! We hiked for about 45 minutes up hill and it definatly was not a chilly day up there! The sun was very warm and pretty much everybody got sunburnt. We arrived at the church and had vbs and womens ministry at the same time. There was about 45-50 children present. We shot off our water rocket that Dave recommended we build, because the children love it. Then we had our lunch up on the mountain. After lunch and everything with the church was finished we split up into two groups. Some walked to an old abandoned catholic church that was higher up the mountain and the others walked back down to a really nice library that was built by a Nicaraguan lady. The group that went to the library also took a rigourous hike down further to see monkeys! The walk back to the bus was a lot easy because we had less luggage to carry, but we were all really tired and very very dirty! It was a fight for the showers when we got back to Provadenic haha. Later that night we went to a church service at Pastor Luis´church then came home and went to bed!

Today was more of a relaxing tourist day. We started out by going to either Pastor Felix´s church or some went to Pastor Migel´s church. Either way they were both a great way to start the day! Then, we ate lunch and headed out for the volcano. On the way to the volcano our lovely bus broke down!!! haha. The very manly men that we have in our group got out and pushed the bus to the side of the road. Then they had to move it more out of the way and mentioned that it was easier to push once all the women were out of it. HOW RUDE! haha. We found a ride up the mountain to the volcano. The view from the volcano was amazing! You could see way deep down into the volcano and there was lots of smoke and the lovely smell of sulfur in the air. Then, Ernesto had our autobus fixed when we got done sightseeing and we loaded up and drove to Masaya to go shopping! Hooray! We only had about an hour and a half to shop so don´t be to picky about your souvenirs familias! =) Then we came back to Provadenic and prepared for VBS tomorrow. It is at San Rafael and then we´re headed to the BEACH! woohoo!!! Keep us in your prayers. We appreciate them all and miss everybody! LOVE YA! see ya in 3 days!