This is Lisa Kelly...serving as a "guest blogger" today. Today, we all experiencced a wide range of emotions. After a very moving church service this morning, we went to a volcanic crater lake for the afternoon. We had an amazing lunch by the lake in a structure on stilts with one of our masons, Phillipe and one of the families we are building for this week. Their names are Natlia (who speaks great English) and her husband, Angel. Natalia is a homemaker and Angel is an accountant, who plans to run his business out of their new home. Lunch was an amazing sampling of steak, beans, chorizo sausage, the best guacamole' ever, cheese and grilled plantains with cream. We all received a hand-made rose made by Natalia along with party hats and balloons. After lunch we took a boat ride to a beach...along the way, we saw people swimming and fishing, men jumping off large rocks into the water, corn planted by hand along the steep slopes leading down to the lake, beautiful homes owned by the rich (one even had a helicopter parked in the yard). Half of our group was adventurous and jumped right in the lake. The others (who didn't have a bathing suit along) took another boat ride. Nikki stayed on shore in her clothes and the guys picked her up and dumped her in the lake. :) Soon after, we asked Travis (our other fearless leader) to drop the man purse he was hugging to join us. After a mob of us came to shore, he went in (still in his clothes) on his own free will. As the rest of the group returned from their boat ride, they also joined us for a swim (in their clothes). As we returned to shore, we witnessed a group of people conducting a baptism. It was a great day today...filled with lots of tears and laughter. Tomorrow, it's back to work on the build site.