work.
Work had definitely been crazy. ask my roommates how many times they see me.. not too often.. sad day :(
I have been working really hard. I have some stuff to show for it.. if one is ever curious.
Here are the following things I have been working on..
Mexico.
We headed to Mexico on November 8-9. It was a disaster, according to my agenda. When we first arrived to Mexico everything was going well.
It was until we reached the campgrounds that everything did not go as planned.
Both pastors’ forgot that we were going to visit their church. I just felt horrible because I invested a lot of time and effort planning out these trips and they did not show up. But the show kept on going.
The Kyrgyzstan team headed to Pastor Juan’s church site. He did not show up. Luckily, Andre Richey (Mr. Mission) is the team leader for that team and he rolled with the punches. According, to him they had an amazing time over there.
The rest of the team was at the Pastor Silvia’s church site. It went really well. I was paired up with Josh and Joe. We knocked on homes in search for children. We ended having about twenty children joining us for the afternoon. Because I was the only one fluent in Spanish, I was given the assignment to teach them the story of the Good Samaritan. We had some sweet arts and crafts and fun activities. I think we played about 2 hours of soccer with the boys. That was definitely tons of fun.
I personally had an amazing time at Pastor Silvia's site. These children were very well-mannered, easy-going, and attentive. I had such a blast!!
After a fun afternoon, we headed toward “El Charo” a sweet restaurant. Again I ate way too much chicken.
Soon after, we headed towards the campgrounds. In the campgrounds we had some worship time and Josh delivered an encouraging message.
It gets better…
We had Sunday service inside the campgrounds. As we were doing our things. The campground director locked us inside the campground. We weren’t able to get to the border line until 3pm… we arrived at Vanguard at 11pm. The longest drive home.
God has definitely been teaching me to rely on Him and not be stuck in my own agenda.
Other thing that I have been working on lately is the finals week fundraiser. I believe we have received a little over 3000 dollars from caring parents. Next week, we will definitely be very busy making goody bags for the majority of the student body.
A plug in. We have been meeting with our Hands across the Border student Committee for the past month. We are planning the annual spring break trip. We have most of the teams covered, we are working on the worship teams, and now we are mostly focusing on the publicity. We will be meeting again next week in the morning for breakfast.
Another, assignment that I have been working on is the Children’s Christmas Party. This event has definitely been taking up most of my time. I have been calling organizations to help donate food and toys to underprivileged children, working on booths, giving announcements in chapel, and been running around doing errands for this event. Next week, we will be having our wrapping party we will be wrapping over 300 hundreds gifts…
Although, this part of the semester has definitely been very stressful, I know at the end God will be glorified.
