Sunday 6/6/10 by susan hinton

We began our day with a scrumptious breakfast at the hotel. Allen was telling the Kansas team everything embarassing I had done on the trip so far; the funniest thing was I was falling asleep the whole time I was on the plane filling out the customs forms, so I had checked that I was a male professional tourist and mission trip volunteer, I had traveled by sea, air and land to get to Bolivia and we had 19 bags! We only actually had 5 so it was a good thing that Pam had the church praying for us through customs! Then I went to sit in the hot tub and there was a suction at the bottom that tried to suck my behind through it; I thought I was going to have to call security to get me unhooked! After breakfast we had lost one of our buses so we actually managed to cram 43 people into a tiny bus; we of course felt much closer after this! Then we attended church with the most awesome band playing in Spanish. Our praise band actually played and sang a few songs along with Laura from the Kansas team praise band. The church had several young people that danced with streamers and tambourines. We were blessed that Bennett's fever was gone and he was feeling better. Heidi had done a wonderful job of picking out restaurants for us to eat at that were economical and had delicious food. We did find out that in order to adopt a child in Bolivia you actually have to live in this country for 2 years first. And it is also getting more difficult for Christian missionaries to come to Bolivia. Kimberly is a student at Ontario but is here on a student exchange program and is rooming with us. We needed our clothes ironed so we called downstairs for an iron. About 10 minutes later a lady came up to the room, gathered our clothes and ironed them for us! We had a little bit of free time tonight so we went to the plaza to shop for souvenirs and actually go to to a Bolivian Coldstone! After devotions out by the pool we turned in for some well deserved sleep. Also, a special 18th birthday wish to Rachel Hinton.