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Summer (Return) part 7
Hi readers,
(or at least READER- thanks Chip)
I have an update.
As many of my friends know I went out of the country with my church on a mission trip to COSTA RICA.
I know it sounds like a vacation but it wasn't. There was a lot of work to do. Not that I would complain, I loved it all.
Every day our group would gather and pray then have breakfast, we prayed at each meal actually. After we ate we would be ready and leave off to go to a little village on the bank of a wide stream. The water was very dirty and the houses were in horrible condition. It made my heart ache to see how the people lived. At the stream, river, whatever, we told bible stories to the children(ages 1 to about 15) and played games with them, we would also paint their faces which was fun. Honestly those if you could see one of those children smile you wouldn't believed that they lived the way they did. They were so happy and full of love. Which proved to a lot of us that us teenagers are way too materialistic, but thats not all. Close to lunch time we left the river and returned to the simple motel like place we stayed at for lunch. We took a little cool down break and then left to go work. There were three different work sites that we went to, (the group split up so we could accomplish more). The fist was at the river, putting tarps on the houses and stuff like that. The second sit was a little school, there we painted the inside and outside of the school, the outdoor bathrooms and the separate cafeteria, including the roofs and the ceiling of the cafeteria. The other work site was a house of this lady that had handicapped children, there we helped build a part of her house, do some plumbing, and repaint the side of her home. I was lucky enough to go to all the different work places.
I was amazed that none of the teen boy in the group complained about the work. I was seriously expecting it. Probably only because I have brothers with that attitude towards work. The girls didn't complain much at all. Anyways we stopped working each day at about 5:30 to be back in time for dinner. The rest of the day was ours to spend. Then at about 8 or nine we had group devotions then went to bed by ten or 11(something like that).
Any ways the whole experience was just amazing.We attached too the children that river and we worked hard all day to show people God's love and we were just loving it the whole time. Personally my favorite part was painting, because the teem just got to work with each other and we talked as we worked. I've never been with any one out of the church this way it was new and really cool to see how compatible we all were. There was hardly any drama with the girls, except when the boys would throw them in the pool back at the rooms. That was funny, and the food in Costa Rica was so good, even if we did get tired of rice and beans for breakfast EVERY DAY.
It was an amazing week!
~AbbyD~
nostalgic(or at least READER- thanks Chip)
I have an update.
As many of my friends know I went out of the country with my church on a mission trip to COSTA RICA.
I know it sounds like a vacation but it wasn't. There was a lot of work to do. Not that I would complain, I loved it all.
Every day our group would gather and pray then have breakfast, we prayed at each meal actually. After we ate we would be ready and leave off to go to a little village on the bank of a wide stream. The water was very dirty and the houses were in horrible condition. It made my heart ache to see how the people lived. At the stream, river, whatever, we told bible stories to the children(ages 1 to about 15) and played games with them, we would also paint their faces which was fun. Honestly those if you could see one of those children smile you wouldn't believed that they lived the way they did. They were so happy and full of love. Which proved to a lot of us that us teenagers are way too materialistic, but thats not all. Close to lunch time we left the river and returned to the simple motel like place we stayed at for lunch. We took a little cool down break and then left to go work. There were three different work sites that we went to, (the group split up so we could accomplish more). The fist was at the river, putting tarps on the houses and stuff like that. The second sit was a little school, there we painted the inside and outside of the school, the outdoor bathrooms and the separate cafeteria, including the roofs and the ceiling of the cafeteria. The other work site was a house of this lady that had handicapped children, there we helped build a part of her house, do some plumbing, and repaint the side of her home. I was lucky enough to go to all the different work places.
I was amazed that none of the teen boy in the group complained about the work. I was seriously expecting it. Probably only because I have brothers with that attitude towards work. The girls didn't complain much at all. Anyways we stopped working each day at about 5:30 to be back in time for dinner. The rest of the day was ours to spend. Then at about 8 or nine we had group devotions then went to bed by ten or 11(something like that).
Any ways the whole experience was just amazing.We attached too the children that river and we worked hard all day to show people God's love and we were just loving it the whole time. Personally my favorite part was painting, because the teem just got to work with each other and we talked as we worked. I've never been with any one out of the church this way it was new and really cool to see how compatible we all were. There was hardly any drama with the girls, except when the boys would throw them in the pool back at the rooms. That was funny, and the food in Costa Rica was so good, even if we did get tired of rice and beans for breakfast EVERY DAY.
It was an amazing week!
~AbbyD~
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