Wednesday - Harvesting Beans & Lunch

We arrived in the village this morning - our last day here at La Bendicion. 

Kids came running to greet us as we stepped off the bus.  What a joy it is to see the connections that we have made with the people in such a short time.

After the morning message and festivities, we headed out to the fields to harvest beans.

These are the red beans that we saw drying out in the sun yesterday. 

We would pull the entire plant out of the ground, and once we had a good bunch of plants, we would leave them in piles to be gathered later.  

We worked our best, but the villagers seemed to chuckle a little at our methods and lack of experience.  This "working in the fields" was just to give us a feeling for what their way of life is like.

One of the struggles today was that we discovered "ormigas" - little black ants - the hard way.  They reside in the ground among these plants, so several of us got them in our shoes, and some ants went up our pant legs and they bite! It made working in the fields rather difficult.  We now had a better understanding of why the villagers wear long pants and boots when working in the fields!

After about 30 minutes of working, we were done and we hiked back to the village. When these families work in the fields they work 8-10 hours a day!!  Their dedication to hard work to feed their families and pay off their debt to own the land is amazing.

For lunch we ate in the villagers' homes again today.  We enjoyed an amazing time with these families this week.  It is a joy and honor to be in their homes.

One of the families showed us around their home. The picture on the right is their kitchen which takes up half of their home.  We ate lunch in the middle portion of their home, which was more like a patio, pictured on the left.

This area was the other portion of their home which is the bedroom, where the mom, dad, and two kids all sleep.  Their youngest child (napping in the picture) is two years old and is unable to walk due to some physical challenges.  So our team took time to pray for this child, together with the family.

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  1. Great pictures. Having been to T.N. It feels very real to see you there!

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