Hello! This is Jessie blogging
today while everyone is gone for the night zoo. So far this trip has been
really great for me! The girls had the hardest time waking this morning so far,
but we all still managed to crawl out. Apparently since our debrief meeting ran
a little late, everyone took awhile to settle back down and went to bed bit
later last night. But everyone still made it to breakfast…sleepily! For
breakfast we had fried jacks and beans. The food has been really great the last
few days, I’m so thankful for our chef, Nela!!… I actually had a really good
conversation with her today about her family and where she is from. She is
typically pretty quiet and shy-like, but she got so excited to tell me about
her family. She even opened up her Facebook and showed me pictured of them and
their trips to Mexico to visit more family.
We jumped right into construction
after breakfast since the Raymond was pretty antsy to get a move on. Raymond is
the man in charge of all the construction…also a relative of Nela! Construction
today was mostly just sanding down a kitchen cabinet they made and a bunch of
other pieces for wood that I actually am not too sure what they are going to be
used for. I’m sure there were other chores that we finished today, but I had
been outside just sanding the whole time so I’m not exactly sure what. After
awhile we started playing pop music and would sing along together as we worked :D
.
By 12:00 we had lunch and then
headed over to the park to do VBS. I’ve been working with the 11 year olds and
up girls. We spent our time together going over the story of an angel leading
Peter out of prison, and even made a poster of the whole story. My girls knew
the story pretty well but were still really into the activity. If you’ve read
about Derrick in previous blogs (he hangs out with us everyday and has a family
of 13 siblings), my group of girls consisted mostly of his sisters and cousins.
Only three girls have been coming every
day: Jiselle (Derrick’s sister), Kristy (their cousin), and Daisy (Qing Ping’s
little sister/ youth of BCCC). I’ve been able to bond with these girls a lot,
and it has been especially amazing for me to see these three girls bond with
each other! All of them are taller than me and for some reason really like to
pick me up… But we also love to hug each other too!!
Prayer Requests:
1. Pastor Dave has got the sniffles
>:C… pray for them to go away, especially because he has a sermon to give on
Sunday here!
2. Many other counsels at VBS we
work with are also coming down with sniffles, but they got more camps to do.
3. Energy and good rest since
everyone came back from the night zoo late.
4. The kids and our last day of VBS
with them.
5.
Construction gets finished!
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