Christmas in Guyana

Enclosed on the Blogg are pictures of three activities we were involved with for Christmas.
Some involved the Elders here in our area. We fed them them, watched them play football(soccer) went caroling with them on a horse cart ( one of the major, very popular means of hauling everything here) and on Christmas Morning we went to two orphanages and sang Christmas Carols with them and gave all of the children a gift.. The Santa you see is an Elder from Kearns.. and he was so good. One of the orphanages is for handicapped children, and this was such a great way to spend Christmas Morning, (one we will Never Forget)!!!! The other Pictures are from a Christmas Party on Saturday before... at a school we are working with to give them some help. These students had been out of school for two weeks, but came back on a Saturday, all dressed up, to have their party... you can see how sparten the school is... they played ONE game Pin-the-tail-on-the -donkey, ( and there are donkeys, pigs, horses, cows, sheep, goats and dogs ALL over the place,,, mostly in the road,,,no fences) they only had one teenager be in charge and he had to use a little cloth for the blindfold, it would not even go around the childs head without being held.. and the donkey was just drawn on the only blackboard with chalk.. it was so neat to see the childrens faces when they got their drink and snack and a little gift, that we helped with.. They were so excited to be there and they had to sit and hour waiting for this all to happen..Happy kids..The children are so happy and have so little.

We are so fortunate to be here and to have had these kinds of experiences. We cry one minute and laugh another and are frustrated another... Things change as fast as the rain storms we experience here one minute to the next, coming off of the Atlantic everyday.