Today was our last day in the community doing health screenings. We went to a nicer school; I think it may have been private. The boy in this top picture was just so cute today. He started crying before he even got his finger poked...he started crying as soon as his vision was getting checked. So sad! Nothing a little candy couldn't help though. After we did some screenings, we went to a 6th grade classroom for kids to write down everything they had eaten in the past 24 hours and then circle the things they thought were healthy. The kids in the classroom didn't know where their teacher was. So after we collected the papers from them, one of the students came up to us with her notebook seeing if we would write our names on the paper. Then she asked if she could have our signatures. In about 2 seconds that turned into all 30 6th grades throwing their notebooks in our faces for us to sign. Hah, it was so funny. Like INSANE. We couldn't make our way through the crowd to leave even! Finally, Sarah got them to settle down and SIT down. The other two girls left the room, and just as I was walking out the door I took a picture of the kids nicely sitting down. But not at all really, cause they started CHARGING the door. (This picture of all the kids is just a glimpse of what was about to happen.) I booked it out of there, and the 3 of us ran out of there and down the stairs laughing so hard. That might have been my first time getting mobbed.
The rest of the day was free of any attacks. We went to the University of Guayaquil's nursing school to tour it. We got to talk with some of the students there, and I realized that I carried on a pretty long, normal conversation with a couple of the girls there (in Spanish). So that felt good! Then, tonight we sang at the church "Joseph Smith's First Prayer" and "I Need Thee Every Hour." After us, the missionary choir sang. It was pretty short, but we ended up waiting for our ride twice as long as we were actually there.
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