WEDNESDAY

Last night i got a video done for Melissa when she donated 2 bikes to Nidia and her 3 brothers...Herman can fit on Nidia's and Jose and Wismon share the other. The Patrana's are her favorite family and we took the bikes out Sunday. Melissa wanted to deliver them herself but they were not assembled in time before she left Saturday...click here to play the video or right click and choose "Save Target As..." to save it to your computer.

This morning I helped video tape a drama at the house I stay in for Yader and 3 of his classmates...It was a school assignment and the final product was a 7 minute video about something with a cat and 2 gang bosses and their 2 servants.

We had our staff meeting with Pastor Tommy and got to Candelaria around 3...Tommy had his leadership meeting with 12 pastors and Oscar translated with Tim present. Scarleth and I did some more work on our attendance headshots and organzied the bodega. Here is a picture Scarleth did for fun for the attendance sheet...2 other kids had strings tied to her hair and pulled to the side. Alex helped me win the bodega, and we will have more to do tommorrow, at least another hours worth.

Leo held baseball practice for the first time since his return...some of the boys are out of the routine but I think with him back it will get straightened up quickly. I have decided to use $200 a month of my mission income to pay Leo as the baseball coach along with the work he does to help with youth group and other odd jobs. Scarleth and I went over the rules that we have just made for the baseball team and we have about 10-12 new boys that are joining the team. Leo wants any kid that commits to coming to be on the team to have a shot.

Leo will also be teaching discipline, character, and teamwork. They must pray before and after every practice and have good attendance in school and Sunday school.

We got back to Leon around 7 and I cleaned up, ate, and started doing updates to the blog and other computer daily tasks.