Once again we had another action-packed weekend. It started Saturday with a run to the market early in the morning. When we got home, Ann stayed the rest of the day and took a break but I took off with friends from school to a balneario, which is like a private park with a big swimming pool. It was so much fun. We brought a ton of food and cooked out on the grill and played frisbee and volleyball and swam. It was the first time I've swum in over a year and only the second time in a couple of years as far as I can remember. It felt so good I don't know why we don't do it more often, or at all. Then on Sunday it was another all-day excursion, this time with the church for another baptism outing. One thing our church does right is baptisms. We take the whole day to go out to a place in the mountains and have lunch and worship and get baptized, along with soccer, which is a given. We do the dunking in a river which is frigidly cold, but we all play in it afterwards anyways.

This time we had 4 new baptizees, one of which was Paulina, an old Quechua woman who doesn't even speak Spanish. She was saved 4 months ago when the Pastor and I went to visit her home. She is actually the mother of Serafin, the father of our goddaughter, and lives with them when she is not back in her village way out in the mountains.

We also made a wat'illa. It is a earth oven you build to cook potatoes, and boy were they good.

Then there was soccer, which ended in an all girls game when the pastor could finally get all the boys off the court. It was fun to watch, as you can imagine.