Day 3 - Camp 2

From Yesterday’s Blog: The name of the other group is “Step Forward.”

Well today was a day of blessings and challenges. I have been so tired all the time, as have many of the team, so morning devotions was on our strength in the Lord. We prayed for this strength, and God answered in a very real and evident way.

The morning started out normal without any troubles. Morgan and Frank did the morning Bible lesson which was on How Love rejoices in truth and not evil. They had some children from ward 3 help them act out the story of Zacchaeus. And talked about his old way of life verses his new way.

We then went to the sea…Which was fine until it started pouring rain, while we were in the water. I wasn’t so worried until I heard the thunder which comes with lightning and thought may be we should get out of the water. However the trick is that the “Hill” of death is very steep and made of clay. Add even a little water and it becomes more slippery than a slip-and-slide. We headed up the hill hoping to make it before it got too bad. Some of us made it, it was like 2 steps forward then slide three steps back, but I made it with ward 2. The problem ward 1 hadn’t yet started up the hill, and the rain started pouring more (lighting struck a tree across the street from out gate, David said his ears rang for a while after that. Which is also why I’m writing this in word – we have no internet.) Eventually ward 1 had to walk a long distance down the beach to a place there are stairs and then walk back to camp through town. Everyone got back safely, but very wet.

In the afternoon we also had to change plans because the ground was too muddy to play the game we wanted. Instead we did craft (decorated clothe bags sewn for them by some women in Arizona) in the afternoon; followed by a Bible Ceremony were each child who didn’t have a bible at camp received one.

This left our evening spot open, so we filled it with a Movie, I think it was something like Planet 51 (I’m not really sure, at this point the schedule has moved around so much I needed to work on the scheduling and coming up with a plan A and B for tomorrow. Besides it is in Russian and I don’t understand that much yet.)

It started pouring again just as the kids got out of the movie, so again many got wet. The rain has helped cool it down a little. Some even say it is cold and have jeans and sweatshirts on, but I’m still hot in shorts and a tank top because it is still humid. But much cooler, Praise God.

Please pray for being able to be flexible and change plans quickly with the weather. Please pray for tomorrow, which is on Love is Kind. Please start praying for the Salvation Message that is coming up on Sunday (Remember we are 8 hours ahead of you.)Thank you for your prayers. It is so fun watching God answer them.