Here’s our host, Doña Lidia, showing off her kitchen. She and her daughters put really long sticks and logs into the wood-fired stove and as they became coals they progressively pushed them further inside the stove.
In the evening there was a big rain storm (have I mentioned it’s the rainy season?) and with the corrugated metal roof we were yelling to have conversations. I learned that Lidia became a Christian two years ago. She is learning how to weave purses and embroider through “The Master’s Workshop,” volunteers with a prison ministry, and is taking theological classes. She has become a key advocate for health in her village. Her husband is a coffee-grower.
Country living has its challenges, such as climbing the slope behind the house in the mud and rain to the latrine. Oh, and remember to side-step the chickens and goats! Morning started at 4:45 as the family started grinding corn and making the day’s tortillas. Here’s Cristina grinding the corn:
The next day we went to the nearby
The man on the left is part of the Catholic Commission in
Committee members (and some children, of course) leaving the school after the training, on what seems more like a riverbed than a path!
Gorgeous scenery on the drive back to the retreat center. Unfortunately it started raining and our comfy ride (on a yellow school bus) became incredibly hot as we had to close the windows.
