The Memorial of Christ's death

As some of you may know, each year we remember Jesus' sacrifice in a simple but important event. Preparation usually starts months before, especially if a large hall has to be rented. In our case, it was the local school.
Five days before, we figured we'd blitz as much as we could cover in one day, as each trip there means about 25 kilometers of hiking. We started at 7 a.m.

It just so happened that Olympic-sized swimming pools of rain came down over our heads at about 2 p.m.
Undaunted, we...


...proceeded, as wife is demonstrating for us.

Rubber boots? Useless. Most locals who had them just took them off :)
At this point, it had stopped raining and trails had become happily muddy. It's 3 pm at this point.

Here, it was about 6 p.m., and we had walked far more than we ever did before in this area. Sara loves my muddy truck, which we usually leave at the first intersection because of the horrendous trails.

Sunday at 11 a.m. We're already at the local school in Quebradas Llanas.

There's no electricity here, so we had to prep lights for the 6 p.m. event, plus electricity for the sound system and microphone.
Caught Nadia prepping some wild flowers...
Our generator / truck. It worked great in powering up everything.

We bit of entertainment while we counted down the hours. Nadia tried the hoola hoops for the first time.


And I tried roping a fence post. Seems like this is what every young boy wants to be when he grows up. A cowboy, that is, not a fence post.
For some reason, Alfonso's bald head mystified all the children. They couldn't keep their hands off of it.
The event.
In total, 51 people attended. Though it doesn't seem like much, we had no idea Quebradas Llanas had 51 people. There were 10 publishers, when gives us a nice ration of 5 times the amount of pubs.
This little guy was out of his element. His owners can't go anywhere without him, so he snuck in and hunkered down underneath a bench for the whole event. We didn't hear a peep out of him.

We now plan to do the special talk there, and have a regular once a month video from the society. It'll be a blast for them, of which many have never gone to a theater or seen a movie. Should be interesting...