El Salvador

Hello! this is Emily.

We are safely in El Salvador, and I want to say thanks to all the people who have written or commented that they are praying! It is very important!

El Salvador is in waaaaay better shape economically than Nicaragua, ironically because so many of their people live and work in America and send money here. Their currency is the U.S. dollar! isn´t that crazy? They have malls and fast food in the capitol city which was unheard of in Nicaragua. KFC, burger king, etc. Not that we were hoping for any of that! ha!

Last night we started in immediately by leading a Bible study and then today by 7 am we were at a high school. It was such a crazy experience! We went in to different classrooms to talk about lies of the culture and sexual purity again. This time many times to groups of only girls. I got a chance to share once I got my nerve up. :) Then, because this culture is soooo big on honoring their guests, they put on a folk dance for us. Seriously! It was like earth day or something...hard to tell what they were doing, but they had a celebration that the whole school came to. And, they asked Justin to speak about saving the earth about 3 seconds before he was on to speak! Poor guy! So, he did suprisingly well, and then they had a folk dance and a song just to honor us. How crazy! they all took pictures with us and wanted to meet us...just because we are American I guess??? Then the high school girls were giggling like crazy about Ben. Ben and i are quite a sensation with blond hair. We have literally not met or seen a single person with blond hair other than ourselves. Well, onetime we saw some on a bus go by and we were shocked. ha. So, we spoke 4 times and they served us a special lunch and took a million pictures with us and all wanted our names to look us up on facebook. That should be interesting! Then we got a tour but we were so tired we could barely enjoy it. so, we came back and got a two hour nap. I feel like a new person! Here´s some photos for you to enjoy!