Merry Christmas Yalu!

Today a group from NLCH led a day of activities for the people of a small Mayan Village high in the mountains. Four of our youngest girls performed a dance that they had prepared during the week. Other activities during the day were crafts, kite making (which is a REALLY big deal here), games, and best of all a ~*PiÑaTa*~

After all the activities, there was a LARGE meal served to all the people that came for the day.

The Mayan people are so precious! It was cute to watch how shy they were at the beginning and then see them come out of their shells a little as the day progressed.

Jared and I were blessed to see the kids of the Children's Home going to serve others in need.

For more Photos visit NLCH website's gallery at: http://gallery.me.com/kendonw

~Santa Clause~

As you can tell by the pictures I took of the kids, we had the wonderful opportunity to go to a special event with Santa Clause! The kids were so excited about seeing Santa and they even sang Christmas songs on the way to the event. A man had donated 10 tickets to the event for our kids. It was held at a shop called Pintemos (Let's Paint). All we knew about the event was that the kids were going to get to see Santa, but when we arrived we realized it was going to be so much more.

The women of the shop started dressing the kids in aprons and gave them all paint supplies. They got to paint their very own Ginger Bread Man. They also served cookies, pizza, and punch while the kids painted. Later Santa arrived and handed out Candy Canes and took pictures with all the kids. Needless to say they had a blast. A little boy named Kevin (yellow shirt in the picture with Santa) got in line three times to go get his picture taken with Santa, it was too cute.

El Dia de Gracias (Thanksgiving)

I want to apologize for not posting anything on our blog for quite some time. It has been crazy around here with the holidays. Thanksgiving was a fun time with great food and friends. The people of Guatemala do not celebrate Thanksgiving, so several missionary families came to NLCH to celebrate with us. We made all the traditional dishes for the Thanksgiving meal and we even played flag football on very full stomachs.

I (Joy) have been working furiously on the new website for NLCH and it is almost done! I hope all of you will check it out once I finish and post the link. It has been a fun experience for me because I have been able to use all my photography and design skills to make the website.

Here is a link to the online gallery of pictures from the website: http://gallery.me.com/kendonw#gallery

You can see how I am kept busy with taking pictures of all that is going on here.