Post by Hannah "Montana" McCarthy

Today all of the groups had another day full of hard work, but everybody was successful and made much progress in their projects. During out lunch break we had the opportunity to listen to a new friend of ours her name is Estella and she is in charge of the "mamacitas" or young teenage mothers. We were given the opportunity to hear her story and learn a little bit more on how the people in these communities live. Her story was full of sadness but it was over powered by the happiness and joy that she gets from all the people that love her and are thankful for all of her help. What stood out to me the most was how willing she was to help these young moms, most of them are ages 14-18 and have nobody to help them to get the supplies that is needed to take care of their children. Without her help these moms would really struggle to get by each day. It was a blessing to hear her story and we were all happy that she opened up to us.

Once we left the work site we headed back to the house to have some dinner but this night was a little different. Instead of just our normal group of younglifers we had the Guatemalan younglife staff join us for some pizza. These people were from the neighborhoods that we have been working in the past couple of days. We all joined in conversation with them even though we all struggled with our spanish it was alot of fun. We had the opportunity to not only ask them questions about how they live their lives but we made some great new friends as well. We finished off the night by singing the spanish and english version of "Open the Eyes of My Heart" and then said our good-byes to our new friends. We all had a great time and hope to see them during our next few days at work. Well that is all I got. It was a great day with no rain so that is always a plus!! We hope that you are praying for our group but also for all the people that we are serving this week. See you soon