Today was a day you would not believe. We got up at 6AM and attended an Easter sunrise service where the minister spoke, spoke, and spoke some more for 42 minutes, believe it or not. So what?
After breakfast with the Mexican friends and family, we commenced to place Easter eggs for children in places that they could find them and also Jim Hooks had to place several on car tires and on the suspension and also in the outdoor cooker. Believe it or not, each egg was found! Seeing and observing adults was worth viewing.
After this event, most laid down under fans with a 99 degree temperature outside and tried to rest. This we did.
Later in the afternoon Rob Price, Jennings Johnson, Mike Mills, and young Jim Hooks made a trek of walking down toward the east and among dilapidated homes, talking among ourselves we could not believe the poverty and good nature of the individuals along the way that addressed us with a wave.
Around 4:30 PM we drove through Naranjito with twelve people in an 11 passenger van and with potholes. My kidneys are still intact. We arrived at Third Presbyterian Church and met again Pastor Alfredo Castillo. It was very good and a spiritual feeling to see this person again. We arrived for an Easter service and it was beyond the ordinary imagination. For the first time we were asked to get on our knees and pray for Robbie Barr's complete recovery of his injuries sustained in an automobile accident. This was indeed a different and unique expression to pray and one that puts you in the presence with our Creator.
The evening was capped off with a delicious meal prepared by our "hermanas" Petra and Soneida and with devotions lead by Michelle Johnson and Charlotte Albright.
Gloria a Dios!
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Hooks
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