Monday, July 29th, 2013 . . .

Today we wet to the farm and while my mom and some of her friends pulled weeds and dug around in the garden, some of the men and I tore down about half of a cement building using nothing but hammers, a rope, and a truck. A bit before lunch mom and her friends came and helped a bit as we moved the rubble off of a bank and then we ate and finished and went to the building in Guatemala City. While we were eating supper, Jose came and told us that some gang members had studied the patterns a lot and had found out where two children would go and were contacting the mother, saying that unless they got $3,000 they would kill the kids. The kids were taken to a safe place and we all prayed for them and then we came back to the seminary.