Recent Volunteers.....sorry this is REALLY late!

Well, the month of June was filled with LOTS of volunteers! When I came back from home, I met up with Joel's brother, his family, and 2 neat guys at the airport. Then at the bus station the next day, we all met up with Travis and Bonnie, friends of Robyn and Joel's! So there were LOTS of gringos on the bus ride, and to top that all off, a missionary's wife who goes to our church was on the bus with her little one too! I haven't seen so many gringos on one bus, other than coming with Robyn's youth group!!! When I arrived, Joy was still there from England! YEAH!!! She was such a blessing to take over my class for me! A few days after getting there, Travis and Bonnie left for Cusco, and then Darrel came. A few days later, Bonnie came back after seeing Travis back off to the States. He had to get back to work. Then a few days after that......Joel, Robyn, Joel's brother and his family left to go to Cusco while Ben and Bryson went back home. Then while Joel and Robyn were gone, Darrel left, then Bonnie left the day after the Hansons got back!!! SOOOO this is just part of our volunteers! We now have 5 girls from Hillsdale College with us for a total of 5 weeks, and then we had Heather (a previous volunteer) for a little over a week. We have had a full house at the orphanage.....oh I can't forget another special person! Mr. Miller came to visit us for a couple weeks!!! It was great to see him again! He did do a little bit of work on the water project in Alto Salaverry while he was here. He left yesterday, to my knowledge! Here are pictures of our recent volunteers (I have pictures of everyone but a close-up of Heather and Mr. Miller.):

Joel's Family and friends....with Bonnie and Milagros (a step-in madre)
From left to right: Joel, Laurie, Micah, Milagros, Bryson, Jeff, Jonah, Ben, and Bonnie

I just have to say that these two boys look a lot a like!!
Tio Ben and José David

Micah and Jonah were great helpers with Kinder while they were here!!!
From left to right: Jonah, Edwin, Alisson, Paúl, José David Erika, Jhonatan, Micah, with Tia Amy and Zuleyca in the front!

Bonnie covering all the books that Laurie brought!!!

Tia Joy and José David! He LOVED going up the ladder to the slide and coming down with Joy!

The kids really enjoyed Joy being their "caballo", which is a horse!
Here she is with Dani and Paúl!

Here Darrel is fixing our screens and our doors! He even put a new handle on one of the doors! He was a great handyman for a couple weeks! I do have to say that Darrel and I had some great adventures into town on micros, taxis, and an interesting lunch!!!

Darrel was LOVED by all the kids! He fixed ALL the bikes! They were so excited to have them to ride again! He spent a lot of time in this workshop with Elias!

The 5 Amigas!
From left to right: Katie, Gretchen, Betsy, Kristina, and Emily