These Photos are backwards in the timeline starting with the celebrations
of Our Lady of Guadelupe more or less working backwards
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| The community came over for prayers and a modest meal to celebrate the day |
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| Cooking the rice dish |
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| Dishing out the 150 servings for the celebration |
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| A manger scene the kids made with Bing |
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| The kids love this tree, they call it the "family tree" |
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| Visiting an orphanage with Kendal |
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| what some of the roads look like, they are made of stone cut from compacted volcano ash |
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| Very typical wall |
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| so much green beauty |
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| Looking down at the mission house from the the "Family tree" |
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| more looking to the right |
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| Douglas working on a cell phone booster because communication with the world can be difficult here |
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| all the kids were blessed by the "babies" that arrived not long after we did |
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| St. Nicolas day and Advent prep |
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| this is where chocolate comes from |
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| these are some more "babies" that arrived after we did, Dogs are very sickly as most people can afford meds for animals. The kids put their money together to buy worm medicine for after the baths |
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| more beauty |
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| Novena for the Purisima |
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| small meal for the Novena |
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| Ninoska cooking the rice dish over fire |
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| the kids love working in their "Castle" |
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| 6 found so far |
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| first week of Advent |
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| even in Nicaragua, possums. This one was living in a banana clump |
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| back view of the mission house |
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| some of the old buildings that make up the "Castle area" Paul hopes this will become a chapel |
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| transportation, we hope to buy our own vehicle that is large enough for us all inside |
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| local transportation is cheap but not roomy, including us I think there were 18 people in this Microbus |
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| Laundry is done by hand here |
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| the neighbor's parrot got loose |
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| Sometimes we eat in the park after mass on Sunday |
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| Church at KU "Kieser University" |
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| The church in San Marcos |
