Monday Night Peru Trip Update

What a great first day!  We started out bright and early and had a devotional right by the river.  The sunrise was so pretty and we could see the locals passing by in their small boats. We had a simple breakfast, your typical toast, cereal, yogurt, oh and some Peruvian fruit that had a hard exterior and once pealed revealed small seeds that looked like fish eyes covered in clear goop.  Most of our team braved the strange fruit and ate it, but others couldn't handle the texture.  We'll post pictures later :)  After breakfast we began to work on the playscape.  There was a lot of sorting and organizing in the beginning but once we got things going things started to come together.  In Peru, lunch is the main meal of the day.  We had rice, catfish (which to many of our team mates, tasted like chicken), veggies, and fried plantanes.  We got pretty far on the playscape.  The platform posts are up and so is the swing set.  We ended the work day with a refreshing swim in the river.  There where these fish that jumped out of the water all around us as we swam, it was cool and scary at the same time.  We ended the night with a small, but yummy dinner, worship session (in English and Spanish), and a talk with Pastor and Mrs. Garcia, a missionary couple that have been at TEC for 11 years.  We are all excited to see what God has in store for us and the people in Pulcallpa!     ~Chelsea