August 7/2011

This morning, Jose our placement coordinator and his family, took us to their church. We drove through marshes to get to this church in the middle of the countryside, where a couple hundred people had gathered in worship. It was the neatest experience! Their whole ceremony was a dance, the  priest gave us a shout out during the homoly, and the energy and excitement for God was unbelievable. At the end of the mass, the women did some dancing in the center of the church, followed by the men, followed by a circle formation and the priests dancing in the center! Crazy! There was this one song in particular that was neat. Each new verse had an action that went along with it, and it progressed from "Touch somebody" to "hug somebody" to "poke somebody" to "stomp on the feet of somebody". It was an absolute blast. This afternoon, Steph, John and I went to Masaya to do some shopping, and this evening went for icecream at Eskimo. Fun times.