A game & A wedding

¡Viva España! Spain won the world cup. Yes, being here has made me obsessed with it too. You just can't help it because literally every front page headline for the past two weeks has had to do with the world cup. Plus it is one of the few conversations I can have pretty easily in spanish.

Sunday was not just the World Cup. The group that came down Saturday night from Alex City brought a bride and groom with them. They decided when they got engaged that they wanted to actually get married at Mama Yoli's church (this was SIFAT's second completely finished daycare center and church in Quito). Most of the teams that come year round have spent a couple of summers building this and it is one of my favorite things when a returning group comes to see it. This time they not only can they brought a party. The bride and groom are probably some of the most chill people I have ever met. It was raining and everything when we arrived at the church and the bride just put on her tennis shoes and hiked up her dress. This was the first wedding this church has had & the excitement on the faces of the members of the community was so cute. They brought in fresh roses and hung ribbons everywhere. They even had a cake. This was a party for sure. It was really inspiring for me and I don't know if the bride & groom realized it or not, but it seemed as if this event sealed the church as finally being complete. It gave the community something to be proud of and celebrate. I even teared up a little. Not only did this couple get married on the first day they showed up at the construction site for the honeymoon. Now I will be honest, I don't know if I would ever be this chill on my wedding day, but it was so refreshing to see how happy they were with just being with each other.