Here are pictures for day 2 (Tuesday) at the Children's Home. If you want to see a larger version of any of these, just click on the picture. To return to the blog, you have to use your "back" button.
After breakfast on Tuesday morning, someone told Sarah that her husband Russell had been turned into a toad. We found Russell shortly after this. Alls well that ends well!
A picture of some homes as we were on the bus to the Children's home Tuesday morning. 
Another home - notice the creative use of tires to hold what ever roofing material they had down.
Everyone wanted to see Samuel smile - Sarah was successful!
Karen H and I spent a lot of time on Monday night looking at the very sad pictures of Jose that I had previously posted about a week ago. She got a lot of pictures of him on Tuesday and he looked like a different boy. Here Kent is playing with the kids at the ring toss. Kent didn't think he would be great with the kids but he was. The kids saw him as a great big teddy bear!
Phil working the ring toss with Luz, Obed and Jose playing.
Pastor Mike (who used to be the AWANA missionary for southwest Idaho and eastern Oregon) had an AWANA games "square" that he had used on another missions trip to Africa. It worked great in Juarez and was a big hit with the kids.
Luis running, turning the corner and ready to dive for the pin. If I remember, they hit each other diving for it. They played AWANA games as vigourously as they play soccer.
A scramble for the pin (he who has the pin wins!).
Cameron and PJ blowing up balloons for the kids. It was amazing to see how much joy playing with these balloons brought. I also remember later in the day Lorna read some letters from kids back home talking about what they liked. Several mentioned that they liked playing their Wii and Nintendo DS - none of the Mexicans had ever heard of these. It was a lesson for Cameron about just how much we have.
Jose smiling - I hope he's smiling now!
Obed was a crazy boy with the balloons, always looking for someone to joust, swordfight or otherwise rough house with him. I miss Obed... he was a specially boy (the same boy who on Monday recited Psalm 23 from memory).
While we were keeping the kids entertained outside, the women had a luxourious tea party complete with really nice Starbucks cakes/muffins and elegant serving cups. Lupe (in the middle wearing yellow) and her daughters (Cesia in maroon and Eliam in blue) had a lovely time as they said they never have time just for themselves with so many children to take care of.
The sisterhood playing a game.
Another lunch served, another large crowd fed.
Cameron made a great friend in Jesus on Tuesday. They played together for much of the day. Cameron has already asked me if there's any way for us to get in touch with Jesus. His house is the one off to the left and is across the street from the Children's Home.
This is Paulo who I wrote about in my summary of Tuesday (day 2) at the Children's Home. I was very moved by him and was so happy that he prayed with us to accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. I'll never forget him.
Cameron and I had brought an Operation game with us to play with the kids. We never played it but at the end of the day, we remembered it was on the bus so we gave it to Lupe for all the kids to play. 
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