Huanca Huanca

Hey Everyone! So for Day 2 we headed to Huanca Huanca (Wanka Wanka)and if I am completely honest it wasn't a super pleasant trip for everyone. It is only about 70 miles away but with the extremely windy roads it took over 3 hours. So we needed to take a few stops for those who got motion sick. But we eventually made it! Our evening consisted of touring around the village and learning about the agriculture they have been working hard to develop. They showed us the plants that they make jam out of and we even got to try it on our bread in the morning and it was soooo good! I wanted to take some home! After we got to hang out and play with some of the kids. Lucas and Jeff both ended up on the bottom of a giant doggy pile of kids! (I'm thankful it wasn't me!) The kids loved it but I think Jeff and Lucas might say otherwise ;) Some of the older boys from the village came and thought that taking picture of us "Gringas" (white girls) was super funny haha We played soccer with them and again the laughed at us because we were horrible compared to them (except for Seth, they were pretty impressed by him!)They also had a church service in the evening and I ended up sharing my testimony kinda on the fly which was a little nerve wracking but when I was up there the words just kinda came to my mouth and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I talked about how God has better plans for your life than you could ever imagine. So I can definitely thank God for that! They also had us sing some songs for us which was uh interesting... We sang how great is our God and Amazing Grace as best we could on the fly and with no instruments. Honestly I thought that it sounded pretty awful but they didn't seem to care! Our travels made us pretty tired so we went to bed right after that but unfortunately we had a few more "incidents" during the night. We are guessing this time it was from dehydration but don't know for sure so we would definitely appreciate lots of prayer for health! Personally for me it was really cool to see all the agriculture and work that is happening through our churches support in Peru. It is one thing to hear about it but a whole different thing to get to see it first hand! Day 3 started off with going to another village and we took a "little" hike which we soon realized was extremely difficult with the high altitude (about 12 000 ft)I think the people probably thought we were pathetic! haha But the hike was worth it as we got to see another plant that they use for making a different kind of jam and it was also incredibly tasty! Thankfully our ride home was uneventful and no one got sick, praise the Lord!! Tomorrow we will preparing for the first group to go to the village so if you could pray that would go smoothly that would be much appreciated! We are a little low on sleep but are having a blast! -Sammi