GREAT NEWS

I am finished with fund raising, YES! Thank you for all your support. I am now offically into stage three: praying, collecting toys, and book my flight plans. Please keep praying for me as I collect toys and get ready for my mission trip.
THANK YOU MOM AND DAD FOR YOUR WONDERFUL ADVICE AND TO MY SIBLINGS WHO HELPED ME TREMENDOUSLY. ALSO THANK YOU MRS. KIRBY FOR OPENING YOUR HOUSE FOR MY FUNDRAISER.

More Gingerbread House Pictures

I like the Christmas Trees

The decorators are showing off their wonderful work.

This is another family who have sent in their pictures to show everyone their version of a decorated gingerbread house. If you decorated a gingerbread house and took pictures I would love to see them.

Better Late Than Never!

I like the graham cracker house next to the gingerbread house.

A little village!

I did not even think about using two candy canes to create a heart. Very original!!!!!

A family in my church bought two gingerbread houses and decorated them and gave me a copy of the pictures. If you have a gingerbread house decorated fill free to email them to me.

Guatemala Facts

Guatemala V.S United States Capital	Guatemala City	Washington, D.C.
Population	13,002,206 (July 2008 estimate)	303,824,640 (July 2008 estimate)
Languages	Spanish 60%, Amerindian languages 40% (23 officially recognized Amerindian languages, including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna and Xinca)	English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census)
Religions	Christian (Roman Catholic, Protestant), indigenous Mayan beliefs	Christian 78.5% (Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, other Christian 2.3%), Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4% (2007 est.)
Literacy rate Definition: Age 15 and over can read and write.	Male: 75.4% Female: 63.3% (2002 estimate)	Male: 99% Female: 99% (2003 estimate)
Percentage of population using improved drinking water sources	Urban: 99% Rural: 92% (2004 estimate)	Urban: 100% Rural: 100% (2004 estimate)
Percentage of population using adequate sanitation facilities	Urban: 90% Rural: 82% (2004 estimate)	Urban: 100% Rural: 100% (2004 estimate)
Climate	Tropical; hot, humid in lowlands; cooler in highlands	Mostly temperate but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are warmed occasionally in January and February by chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
Percentage of population urbanized	48% (2006 estimate)	81% (2006 estimate)
Life expectancy	Male: 68.22 years Female: 71.86 years (2008 estimate)	Male: 75.29 years Female: 81.13 years (2008 estimate)
Under-5 mortality rate	41/1,000 (2006 estimate)	8/1,000 (2006 estimate)
GDP per capita	$5,100 (2007 estimate)	$45,800 (2007 estimate)
Monetary unit	quetzal (GTQ), U.S. dollar (USD), others allowed	U.S. dollar (USD)
Number of people living with HIV/AIDS	78,000 (2003 estimate)	950,000 (2003 estimate)
Percentage of population living below $1 a day	14% (1995-2005 study)	Data not available

Sources for facts: The World Factbook, 2008; The State of the World's Children, 2008

More Info. About Mission Trip

This were I will be staying Guatemala.







On briomissions.com they posted pictures of were I will be staying in Guatemala. It is a beautiful place in Antigua, Guatemala and the resort is called The Guatemala Resort.

I Am Almost There!!!!!!!

Hi Everyone!

Yesterday I sat down and made sure that I was paid for all the gingerbread houses and that I had dropped-off all the gingerbread houses when I noticed that I was a lot closer to my goal than I thought I was. After confirming with my mother, the math-whiz, I learned that I had only $112 to go before I reach my goal. Thanks to all of you I was able to get my payments in on time and some of them before time. I am now working on my April payment and hopefully I will have that done before April 1st. Thanks again for all your prayers and donations.

Sincerely,

Morgan

Gingerbread House Ideas

Here is a few ideas on decorating your gingerbread house.