Yesterday I helped with the sports camp. I don’t know very much about volleyball so I
played with the kids that wondered away from their group. There was a boy named Franklin and another
boy who I helped keep focused by hitting the volleyball with them and played basketball
with them. I even got schooled by
Franklin who is 11. Today I worked
construction and we built a wall for an office and classroom for the
school.
~Colton
So today I was lucky enough to get out of the hot sun outside
and was inside to do VBS. Lisa, Rachel,
Adrienne and I taught the children and not so much children about the 3-5th
day of creation and the verse Matthew 6:26. In Matthew 6:26 the verse talks
about how the birds just hang around and don’t do much, but the Lord still
loves them enough to feed them, so aren't we more valuable than them? We had the little kids make paper fish with
little squares of tissue paper that they wrapped around their fingers and glued
to the paper fish so that the tissue paper stuck up from the fish. They also wrote the last line of Matthew 6:26
on the back of their fish because we only had a certain amount of time and they
don’t write very fast. From what I saw I
think they enjoyed making these fish. With
the older kids they weren’t very interested in making paper fish, so we played
a game. They split into two groups and
we spread cards around the room with words from the verse and they had to find
the cards and put them in the right order and whichever group was correct and
got done first won. They seemed to enjoy
that especially the boys who were flying over desks and pushing over each other
just to get cards.
These past
two days of VBS, Rachel and I have made many new friends. There are these two little girls named Lisa
and Ashley who are sisters like Rachel and I and I think that’s why they have
such an interest in us. There’s also a
little girl named Francesca and she is nuts. She is always yelling and bossing other kids
around and sticking her tongue out, but she is so sweet, funny and so patient
with everyone’s Spanish and tries to help correct everyone so that they speak
better Spanish even though she’s only like 7. It’s pretty crazy to believe how much fun we
have with these little girls because neither of us can speak much Spanish, but
we somehow can keep a conversation going and we play games with them too.
Other than
having tons of fun and sweating all the time, I miss home and I actually miss
my mom and dad. I’ve learned a lot
already this trip and I’m excited to see what God has in store for the rest of
the week.
~Shelby George
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| Above and Below - a couple pictures from Volleyball Camp |
