Not sure where to even start.

We're alive just so you guys know. Sorry it has been soo long.

We just spent the past month with The Servent Sisters of The Home of The Mother. It was one of the most incredible months of our lives. It consisted of painting the school the sisters run in Playa Prieta, selling cake and bunuelos (incredibly delicious fried dough filled with chocolate and then rolled in suger) in different towns and on buses!!!, going to daily mass, having adoration everday, going to summer camp and sleeping in tents, hanging out with the craziest most amazing nuns, carnaval, swimming in rivers,  seeing a pig slaughtered, climbimg up waterfalls, going on missions, and besides the language barrier making some of the best friends we've ever had.

Playa Prieta

 Mercedes, Liceth, Maite, Gema, and Erica! <3

 Swimming in the river by the nuns house!

 Riding in the back of the sisters' truck on our way to Mass.

This was one day after selling cakes and bunuelos on a bus!! We were waiting for a bus or some nice people to bring us back to a town where we could continue selling.

So after waiting a little bit we got picked up by a dump truck! It was incredibly fun riding on it!! (Kelli got to ride in it!) When we would sell our cakes on buses we usually got stranded pretty far away from anything, if we had more things to sell we would wait for a bus heading the other way. But if we had nothing left to sell or no buses were coming, we would have to hitch-hike back!

Carnaval, for those who don't know, is basically like the South American Marti Gras. When you subtract the drinking and other sinful parts of it, pretty much everyone is allowed to throw water and water balloons at whoever, whenever and whereever they want! And its not only on fat Tuesday, although that's when it gets craziest, it starts in some countries up to 2 months before! These pictures are of us soaking wet, after getting gallons of water dumped on us, while trying to dump water on them with tiny little cups.

Chone and summer camp

We got to visit the farm the nuns own in Chone. The main purpose for the visit was to slaughter a pig, and bring it back to freeze it. They give portions of the pig to poor families in their area.

One of the waterfalls we got to go to during summer camp! We got to go see it a couple days early with some of the nuns to check it out and see if it was safe enough to bring all the girls from camp.

One of the families we visited during one of our mission trips! The little girl is blind and mentally retarded because of an accident that happened when she was 4 yrs old.

Start of Camp! Sleeping in tents!!

Gemita. <3 The youngest girl at camp! She was a blast!!

Maguito, Unidad siete leader! She was amazing!

Unidad siete! Aka "Princesas de Cristo Rey!"

Unidad siete, because we were the oldest, always buddied up with unidad uno since they were the youngest. Our girls happen to be best friends just like us! 

Playa Prieta again!

Some of our really great friends from Playa Prieta!

Hma. Virgina playing the guitar and all the girls singing!

Hma. Charity, Hma. Paqui, Hma. Virgina, and Hma. Sara! All the nuns from Playa Prieta!

The girls from Playa Prieta and a few from Chone.