Hey it’s Austin and Mira blogging today from Belize with
commentary by Michael. We are having a fantastic time here, this morning we
started off with meat pies for breakfast. In devotionals Marland (from Alabama)
went over how we end messages and how we are God’s messengers. We started off
on construction in three teams, digging, painting and stairs construction.
In the
digging team we came very close to finishing up all our work. Today the
painting crew helped us while they waited for their paint to dry. Joy and
Hailey were very kind in bringing us a frozen Belizean snack that comes in a
bag called “Ideals”. Michael and yours truly (Austin) managed to work while
holding/eating their Ideals in their mouth. Tomorrow night the contractor will
come to put in the concrete so we will be working harder than ever to finish. The
paint team put on the next layers of paint, now not only is the wall clean, but
it is no longer just a boring white, but has a splash of red instead. Most
exciting of all, the stairs team was able to finish their project. Praise God!
Today
was the 3rd day of VBS, it was also Salvation and water games day. Salvation
day is when the counselors are given the chance to break up into small groups
of 3-5 to share their testimonies with the kids in their group. The counselors
also gave an opportunity to the kids to accept Christ. Today we multiple kids
accepted Christ. PRAISE GOD AGAIN!!! Today in games my crew and I (Austin still)
were a bit worried about how water games would turn out. In previous days, the
kids tended to go out of control and in general just hard to manage, and we were
extra worried because of water games. Setting up for water games was very
difficult because there was no water at King’s Park. So we had to bring over
buckets of water from the church to get enough water. However, today’s games went
incredibly smoothly. The kids didn’t get out of hand and both kid and counselor
had a great time at the same time. PRAISE GOD AGAINNNN!!! To end the amazing
day of VBS we took a group picture, promptly followed us soaking everyone with
the leftover water.
After an
awesome day at VBS we were told we were going to the night zoo. Pastor Brian
gave us one hour until dinner and we all hustled to shower and plan our lessons
for the next day. After spraying ourselves thoroughly with bug
repellent we packed onto the bus for an hour ride to the zoo. I (its Mira now)
sat in front of Hailey and Anthony and we quickly discussed the trip and the
VBS experience they’d had with us. At the zoo we saw 2 types of snakes, 2 types
of alligators, 4 types of cats and 2 types of monkeys as well as a tapir, a picarrey,
a gibnut and multiple types of owls. We came back and bid farewell to the Alabaman
team as they are leaving us tomorrow for San Pedro Island. Please continue
praying for us especially for construction and VBS. Thanks for your time brah. J
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