Day two the lessons we learn!

Today at Centro Escolar LifeLink the children were not the only ones learning. The team also learned some important lessons. We had an amazingly successfully day working on a number of projects and found along the way that there was a lot we had to learn.

The first lesson was that working in Nicaragua requires paying close attention to the amount of water you drink and to the signals your body is giving you. It is very easy to become dehydrated if you are not paying attention.

The second lesson was that working as a team requires patience, flexibility and a whole lot of hands. Today one part of the team installed toilets in 6 of 12 stalls. They also dug a number of ditches to expose pipes needed to hook up the water to the new bathrooms. The other part of the team helped 2 classes, kindergarten and second grade, build puppets and learn the English words for a number of colors. All in all we helped the children assemble 76 puppets. We also helped serve lunch, played at recess and built a puppet stage.

The third and most important lesson was that love is a universal language. We found that despite our lack of Spanish we were able to communicate to the children of Sandino simply by giving them our attention and showing them Christ's love.

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:34, 35 ESV)

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