Jaclyn Williams' Blog

Jaclyn Williams has been blogging about her adventure in Panama these past eight days. For more insight into the adventure of short term mission work go to her site which is in the link section to the left of the main column. You can also paste this into your brower if the the link to the side does not work for you. http://www.jaclynwilliams.blogspot.com

Update # 8

Hey everyone, this is Soldados de Cristo (Soldiers of Christ) reporting from Panama! Today was a very nice day for the team. Although, our team just doesn't feel the same without one of our own, Taylor Hoffman. We are still waiting to hear that she made it home safely. Are prayers are with her during this long trip home. On the way to church this morning we were hoping we wouldn't be late, when Delores shared with us her words of wisdom, "What ever time we arrive at, we are on time." Thanks to Delores we were at peace with the time. We arrived to church this morning at 9:30am. There was class, and then worship began around 10:30am. Raul's son, Raul Jr. did a great sermon today. He is a student at Harding University, and will be leaving to Arkansas this Thursday. We had a full van today. In Delores' van was Terry, Jaclyn, Delores, Deborah (Delores' daughter), Norberto, Alberto, Manuel, & me. We had lunch at Niko's Cafe', a great place to try Panamanian cuisine. It was very filling and delicious! After lunch, we went to the ruins in Panama, which is also called the 2nd Panama City. The buildings were very old fashioned, the roads were narrow, and some people still lived in the tiny rooms there. The design of the buildings were colonial like. Very old fashioned! But, What we didn't know was that the White House was around the corner. We figured we would park and get out and walk. We made our way down a road that had a woman selling coconuts. Jaclyn & I decided to buy one for $1 and drink the juice out of the entire thing. It basically tasted like watered down milk. Not too bad. As we made way to the White House of Panama, we were so surprised to have the opportunity to walk in front of it. The guard checked our bags, and there we went. We took pictures and was so amazed that we got to see the President of Panama's White House. Did we see the President....No. But, it was still an amazing sight. We seemed to be having so much fun, that some gentleman decided to find a seat next to Delores and put his arm around her. We got a picture of that. We all laughed and told Delores this strange man had a crush on her. She just laughed with the rest of us, and said he was crazy. :D As we left the White House, we made our way back to the van. We ended up driving down the coastline and pulled over to hear one of the school bands practicing at the huge park. It was so loud and so fast. They were very talented musicians. This place seemed like a theme park, but with no rides. Just a bunch of people of all ages gathered around like a day at the park. After we decided we had enough entertainment, we decided to take everyone back to their houses and head back home. We were very blessed with the Word of God and the beautiful things that God has made. Pray for our team as we start another week of LST. Sweet Dreams.

With Christian Love,

Sarah