Today we had our kick-off for the summer with a block party. We handed out flyers yesterday at a local summer school and to families all our the neighborhoods. I learned very fast that word of mouth travels very fast! We had over 276 people. Praise God!!! There was so much to do...cotton candy stand, snowball stand, popcorn stand, 3 on 3 basketball tournament, a huge moonbounce, carnival games, a toddler play area, face painting, animal balloon making, and hotdogs and nachos at the end. I do have to say the moonbounce rocked! We convinced everyone before the block party that we had to try it and make sure it was okay so if you would have walked by you would have seen a group of young adults bouncing on this thing. It even had a slide that I absolutely loved! I was working in the toddler area with another missionary Courtney but the face painting was really overwhelmed so I went to help. I was not expecting to face paint or I would have practiced more yesterday when we learning...so I stuck with flowers and hearts. I tried to do fire for a little boy but it turned out to be more of an orange ball. At least I tried. I decided after a while to go back to the toddler area. They are so precious. There was this little girl that wanted to go everywhere she was the cutest thing ever! I thank God for letting me work with these kiddos. They bless me so much with their smiles. I promise I really will get pictures up soon. Tomorrow there is another block party at another center so that'll be exciting.
Please continue to pray for my spanish. I didn't realize how much spanish I would actually be speaking but I'm trying...I also ask that you would pray for my house parents. They lost a cousin very dear to them and we all know this is a very hard time!
Interesting fact: I learned how to mop today. I never knew how to use one of those mops with the long things on the end. My pappy always did it so it was new for me. haha. I learned though. I'm learning more than I ever would have dreamed of.
Soon I'm going to do a post of some of the devotions that I've been hearing. They have been very helpful to me and hopefully someone else will be touched by them!
In Christ Alone, Rosie
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Hey Rosie Girl!
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear how you are doing. Wow! Are you learning lots of things. We are praying for you daily. Run this race with perservance, it's marked out - you just have to run it. Love ya girl. Maybe you should make one of those very big cockroaches (called Palmetto bugs) a pet, you know, give it a name, feed it, let is sleep on top of your covers. Wouldn't that be neat? :-)