Last day at Satchinez

Today was our last day at Satchinez. It was also the only day when the weather affected our plans, it rained a lot last night and there were huge puddles everywhere. We usually seperated the kids half would go outside and do games while the rest stayed inside and did crafts. Today however, they all stayed inside and did crafts at the same time, and when they were done they could go outside for games. The evening service was held inside for the first time.
It was very sad to have to leave the kids, and they all seemed very sad to see us go. This evening they all received Bibles along with a picture of the team, which they were very excited to receive. Not all the kids were able to be there, but for the first time there were more girls than boys. After the service was over the kids came crowding around us, asking us to sign their Bibles (many of which we had signed this afternoon before we gave them out) and/or the backs of their pictures of the team. One girl Diana (Pronounced Dee-anna) had brought the journal she had made on the first day, and asked us to sign that. Many kids also wanted to have their pictures taken with us. One of the girls Ana-Maria's mother was so impressed with what we had done this week that she asked several of us to have our picture taken with her daughter. Many of these kids will never see the pictures printed out, but they didn't care at all!
As a gift for the pastor of the church, Dan went through the pictures on his camera, picked some nice ones, which we had printed out, we bought a nice picture frame to put them in which Mairee and Katy organized, and we presented it to George towards the end of this evening's service. Dan also took in his digital camera card of pictures to be burned onto a disk, and he gave one copy to George and the other to Iosef. George seemed very impressed and greatfull for the gifts.
Overall this has been an exciting week, and we've had a great time. The kids seemed to enjoy it as well!
Christin (or Cristina)