Today was an amazing day! We began a little worried about being late to meet some teachers and about 50 kids - turns out Pastor Fredy was a bit late to pick us up because the the water pump was broken and he had already fixed it. We arrived at El Shaddai, a wonderfully familiar sight, and went straight to work. Some of us meet with teachers and some set up tables and supplies. Very quickly the kids came out -about 70 of them !!! There were children from two schools and their teachers. There was only mild panic among your Living Waters team because we had been well prepared by Nancy Beardsley and Linda W
illiams - many thanks to them. We weren't prepared for the joy the kids bring - teaching is definily where the fun is. We were surrounded and had a wonderful experience. Favorite moments we'd love to have you ask us about:Bart: calling the kids up to put their work on a banner and seeing them swarm and surround Fred with jumping joyful enthusiasm.
Claudia: watcing the kids as they watched Linda filter very dirty water and seeing their eyes get huge and say "it's magic"
Bill: waiting with tape for the kids to bring their work up to be put on the banner, and having them 
come dancing up in a huge herd of excitement and surround him.
come dancing up in a huge herd of excitement and surround him.Linda: explaining the system, then asking what the first step was. A little 5 year old boy who was squirming around, poking his neighbor and clearly not listening jumping up and proceeding to explain the whole system PERFECTLY!
David: being surrounded by 70 little kids all chirping like excited little birds for tape so they could put their work up.
Fred: reading a spanish english book to a couple of kids - and having the group grow and grow till he was surrounded by children taking turns 
reading the spanish outloud, then Fred reading the english.
reading the spanish outloud, then Fred reading the english. All: after having the teachers "spread" germs (blue paint) onto a water bottle, Fred holding it up and the kids reactions of "oh yuck" and actually scooting away.
watching the kids wash their hands before snacks and hearing them sing the song we just taught them. We had a wonderful experience with the kids, capped off with the teacher's happy reaction to all the supplies we brought, especially the books.
After cleaning up, we went to the water house. I
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he flagship of water houses, with many improvements since our last visit - but most amazing, what was started less than a year ago has grown to over 200 bottles of clean water a week !!!!! That's over 56,000 gallons in less than a year, with the majority of it being given away. We were astonished. God is good!
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he flagship of water houses, with many improvements since our last visit - but most amazing, what was started less than a year ago has grown to over 200 bottles of clean water a week !!!!! That's over 56,000 gallons in less than a year, with the majority of it being given away. We were astonished. God is good!As we were leaving we "stopped by" the radio station to take a look. Bart, Fred and Linda broadcast live to Guatemala
Please keep us in your prayers, we travel to El Rosario tomorrow.
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