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Get news and updates sent to your cell phone via text message.| Belize Update - June 19 |
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| Written by Tim Schmoyer | |
| Thursday, 19 June 2008 | |
 Belize Update - June 19 I got temporary access to "higher speed" Internet access, so I'm able to quickly upload some pictures for you all! Woo hoo!We got a late start this morning due to being VERY tired from traveling yesterday. Oh well. Since we had other time commitments, we unfortunately had to cut personal quiet time with the Lord to 30 minutes. I was excited to hear Jeffrey say afterwards, "That was too short. I read the whole book of Ruth in that time." Every day from here out we'll be careful to guard our 1 hour alone with the Lord each morning, though. After breakfast, we went out to the camp to pray over the foundation. The block won't arrive until tomorrow, so we couldn't do any construction on it today, but we at least wanted to see it and pray for the work there. Afterward my 2-minute crash course on bus driving apparently wasn't enough to teach me out to properly start the engine. After several attempts, it started to smell like it was burning and we called a mechanic. He came out and hot wired it, but it turns out that I just didn't have in park all the way. Doh! lol The rest of the morning and afternoon was spent at the church reviewing our dramas, skits, and puppet shows. It turns out we were not nearly as prepared to "perform" as we thought we were, but after several intense hours of memorizing, rehersing, practicing and reviewing, we're a LOT more prepared now than we were before. We left the church at 4:30 PM and gave everyone an hour and a half to just chill and relax until dinner at 6:00 PM. Oh, and the food here has been absolutely fantastic! Most of it is grown and made from scratch right here on site -- everything from the iced tea leaves to the freshly sqeezed oranges for orange pudding. Every meal we walk away more and more impressed. Right now we're swimming at the house of one of the church members. The poverty here is pretty humbiling, but apparently this family is well-to-do. When we're done here, we'll head back to the hotel, do a little debriefing and head to bed. So far everyone's attitudes are still great, although 6 hours of memorizing and rehersing this afternoon was definitely taxing, especially in the heat. I'm really impressed by how some of them have stepped up to take the initative in certain areas. Mim really took over the puppet group this afternoon in a huge way -- I'm very impressed with her! Riza and Megan have really stepped up to memorize a lot of lines for the VBS skit, too. And Josh and Tyra continue to keep everyone laughing and in good spirits. Carrie and Laura are great at keeping the group on track and focused. And of course, everyone else is doing great, too. Although most have had to step out of their comfort zone at least once so far, no one as resisted with a lot of push-back yet. I'm looking forward to seeing them stretched even further as the trip continues. I got pictures posted. Check them out here. |
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