I didn’t pack the right attire for attending church here. I packed my usual Duluth Trading Company cargo pants and a dark polo shirt. I can get away with that most of places we go, but not here. They dress in their best clothes for church in Guatemala. I didn’t plan for that, so I found myself feeling underdressed. But we still went.
The church is on the other side of town from where we are staying, so we started walking around 8:30 and got to church around 8:50. We wondered if they would be doing church via Zoom here or not. On one hand, it’s a little harder for people to get around, so, being able to do remote church seems like a great thing. But, on the other hand, we wondered how many people would have access to a computer and internet in order to watch church remotely. As it turned out, they have both. Church is conducted live, in person, and they stream it over Zoom.
The building is fairly small, but really nice. There were only a few people in the chapel when we got there, and not many more showed up after us. One guy who moved here from Canada about 9 or 10 years ago told us most people watch from home over Zoom and most of the people who show up in person are the ones who were asked to participate in the program. Everything was in Spanish, of course, which made it a little more difficult than usual to pay attention. We caught most of the gist of what was being said, but trying to focus and transalte at the same time really made me tired.
On the way home we stopped at a French bakery and picked up some good stuff. I really liked the empanadas (from a French bakery??) and the ham and cheese croissants. They also had some good pain aux raisin, but they just don’t compare to Mac’s.
