I have a feeling this is gonna be long...
I'm home from Guatemala. Man, I so rather be back in Guatemala with everyone right now. ='( I don't know, home juss puts me in a bad mood. Plus the fact that I have nothing to do and I'm all alone. It juss weird.
So, where should I start? I guess from the beginning... I had a bunch of new adventures the first day, riding the tri rail, a publix bus and a shuttel thing. On the plane ride I sat next to my brother and this kid Michael. I had a lot of fun and bunch of laughs. He's a cool kid. When we got to the Guatemala airport I had to pee and I couldn't get the door to lock and then I couldn't get it to unlock! There were so many people there, we felt like we were famous. We loaded up two school buses and took a 45 min trip to the seminary where we were staying. It was cold and rainy there. The Youth and Mission and Project Abraham kids were there too. There college students who feel a call to missions. All so cool. Minus a few.
So Brittany, Jodi and myself roomed with Staci a cool chick from Youth and Missions! The room wasn't that bad. There were bunk beds, but there were so much better then the ones at camp. The bathroom was kinda small though. The first night I took a FREEZING cold shower, I didnt even get all the shampoo out of my hair I had to get out. And like they said we couldn't flush anything down the toilet. BUT, it wasn't bad at all.
Our daily schedule was basically this...
7 am we had devotions. We all would gather in this one room, open with songs then Jason would read the bible passage then discuss the question of the day and key thought. Then we all went to our own lil quiet spot and spent time with God on our own.
7:30 was breakfast. We got pancakes twice then every other freakin day we got eggs and beans. UGH. So over eggs.
8:30-11 was chapel factory. We all had to walk up this HUGE hill and work in the factory. The first two days I had to paint rebar. Not fun at all. The fumes are so strong. Then the other days I did a bunch of other stuff like throw and carry rocks, shuvel dirt, and carry rebar. Other people did painting the walls, laying and mixing cement and actually bending the rebar. For the most part it was good. We really accomplished a lot.
12 was lunch. There's really nothing to say about that. Besides for that and dinner we had the same thing, geez I was so sick of it. After lunch we would divide into our Guatemala church groups. I was in juan 3:16. We did vbs (crafts, singing, dancing, puppet show...) repaired a school (painted it, fixed the windowns, painted the windows and doors and put up wall dividers), painted two outside walls and put up murals, evangalised, compassion work and promoting.
I spent most of my time with mrs.main, charlie, scooch and Staci. The little kids were so cute. Espically the ones who had little crushes on us. Of course it gets annoying lol. Almost got attacked by a wild dogs. They have so many dogs there. They all look like their about to die. So many hills, major work out. The pastor rocked and his son was hott. I wish I spoke spanish so bad. I loved it all.
we left the site about 6:30 and had dinner at the seminary at 7:30. Then about 8:30 we had debreifing. Our group consisted of Jodi, Bill, Branden, Trevor, Brittany and me. We had so much fun in ours. We always made up jokes and were laughing. I loved it.
Wednesday was our last day at our church sites. It was sad. We had a little service, we sung and some people shared testimonies and gave thanks. Then they passed out gifts to us and said their goodbyes. I didnt really faze me until the pastor came over to say good bye and he said "I love you, I love you." Thats when I realized that this was it. This could be the last time we ever see these people. ='( Extremely sad.
Thursday we worked in the factory then the rest of the day was a free day. We had pizza and some people from our churches came to play. Friday was our day in Antigua. Bought my mom a really nice elephant and my dad a blanket. I'm broke. haha. Then we went to this REALLY nice resturant. It was like prom setting lol. That time was sad as well saying goodbye and thanks to everyone in our group... =( ....
Everyone was so sick. Including me. Still am. Geez I have so many stories I could share....
but I'm not... Man I'm getting sad. I miss it all so much. Its not the same. I'm going back next summer... I have to.
If there was anyhting I could change about this trip was that I could speak spanish and it was more spirtual. But I loved it so much. It was def worth it.
<333333. total missage.