june 29th

June 29, 2010 today was a stressful day, full of sitting and talking and prepping for camp.

This morning we did a worship session with Rachel Nelson; it’s interesting how God works because the common theme naturally this week has been What is Worship. It has come up in three different sessions without anyone knowing it had been discussed earlier and each conversation about it has been completely different.

Camp planning was next on our list for the morning; we sat around and brainstormed ideas for the first week. I forgot how much energy it could take to brainstorm so many ideas, we have a huge paper with stuff written all over it! So many games and ideas I think we are going to have a very packed summer and I am excited. I can’t wait to tell you all about the things we are doing with the kids!! And I am so excited to meet them all and learn their different stories and back rounds.

Lunch was next in the day, we hiked back up to the house for an hour, ate some lunch and read for a while, do note that our house is a 15 min walk from the office and there is this death hill on the way back up so it’s no easy task to just wander back to the house, we need to start packing our lunches.

After lunch we had an hour conversation about “sharing the gospel” “missionary” and “what is the gospel” it was very interesting to hear each person’s different ideas on what it means to share the gospel or how God uses each of us to share the gospel. I recommend having this conversation in your small groups, just make 3 boxes and start filling them in with what you think they each mean or how they relate to your life and how you feel God wants you to live with each one.

After this amazing conversation we ran down to San Rafael coffee and got some amazing oreo coffee things. I think I am addicted to them, the coffee here is so much stronger then the coffee in the States, I really can’t with words help you to understand the amazing ness of the coffee here. Back home I always have to add sugar and milk to my coffee, but here in Copan that would absolutely ruin it, so I just drink it black.

More planning after the coffee, but I had to bail early because Tuesday is my day to cook dinner for the house with Kristin our house director. We made some bean burrito things that were awesome!

Community night is also on Tuesday nights, so after dinner we played this game where each person has to write down three interesting things about themselves no one else would know in the house. Three people are called upon by Kristin to sit on the couch and she reads one of them. One of the people on the couch is the owner of this story but all three try and convince the rest of the group that it is their story, then the rest of the group votes on who they think the story belongs to, it was a great exercise and I learned a lot about my room mates ☺

After all this Emma and I decided to go for a run, (which she does daily in the mornings) so we ran for about 25 mins around the city of death hills. The first speed bump outside our house emma decided it would be a great idea to not notice the bump, fall and slide about four feet on her knees in front of everyone watching. But she was a champ and got right up and kept on running, her knees are pretty banged up now but she won’t let you know it hurts ☺

It is now 12 at night and we are at the office using the Internet about to go back to the house!!! So good night I hope you enjoyed the randomness of this update.