So I guess I have a lot to fill everyone in on since it's been since friday...Well. Saturday we had another block party at the Joy center to kick off the summer. Again we had a lot of kids, carnival games, food and the best part...the presentation of Jesus Christ. I tried my first frito pie. You're probably wondering wha a frito pie is. A frito pie is fritos, chili, and cheese sauce. If you're a spicy person you can had jalepenos . I tried the jalepenos. It was acutally quite tasty so for the people back home...be prepared to try them. I guarentee you they will be at the next get-together. I was with the younger kids when we went and did our craft and Bible story. It was very rewarding to be around such precious kids. I wish I could bring them all home! :) I don't think Gran would like the idea of one hundred kids running around the house though. haha.

Saturday night we went to a house party of one of the volunteers. It was a time to chill and bond. They rented this blow up water slide. You know those bounce houses? Well it was like that except with a huge slide in it with water. It was absolutely a trip. haha. There's an intern here named Graham. He would try to go up and then fall. We would all laugh and think it can't possibly be that hard. Well when I was brave enough to try...I got almost to the top and then I fell right back down. The people that create these slides must not want you to succeed to get to go down the slide because it is extremely difficult. I had some of the best laughs I've ever had. I got to try homemade icecream for the first time and real Texas sweet tea. It's nothing like the tea in PA. no offense :)

Sunday we went to Iglesia Bautista Horeb. It was an all-speaking spanish church. The atmosphere was just indescribable. I loved it. I did understand most of it. They had one of the staff from mission centers of houston, Mara, to go up front and translate. I'll explain the sermon in my devotional blog. I'm going to create a post of all the things that really stick out to me during devotion time or sermons. I'm learning a tremendous amount and I'm hoping that you can learn too. So that is coming...I promise.

Today was the start of ministries. In the morning I learned all about the food pantry which is starting tomorrow. I'm extactic about that. I'm so ready to jump in and help the community. I believe that kid's club ran smoothly. I learned the banana song. As soon as I figure out all the words I'll put it up here. it's pretty funny and all the kids love it. I tried to teach the 4&5 year olds but they really weren't getting the concept so Joanna who is from Puerto Rico and is fluent in Spanish stepped in and explained everything so much better than I could have. I'm so thankful for her!

We had teen club tonight. The summer missionaries were just getting introduced tonight so hopefully in weeks to come we can really be a light and influence to them. They really love sports like basketball and I'm up to try anything so I'm going to learn the games they play. It's mainly all guys that come...well it was 15 guys and 1 girl so I'm praying that God would bring more girls in! Teen club is a time where the teens can come in and play sports for about an hour and a half then they have a Bible study and we feed them. Tonight we fixed hotdogs, chips, cookies, and koolaid.

Oh am I learning not only about God and ministries but also about real life. Just to give you a look at what I've done...I learned how to make koolaid when I can't find measuring things, make my bed EVERYDAY, clean all the time. Like today we had to mop the gym floor. I never really thought about how much responisibility I would have this summer. I'm loving that I get to learn new things. This is something new to me. Cleaning. I'm getting used to it though. I think my family would be very proud of me of how clean I'm keeping my area. And Nana or Uncle Jamie, if you read this can you please tell Connor that my area is not "Rosie clean like my room back home" it's actually clean!!!!! haha. He'll get a kick out of that.

Well lots of love to everyone. Please pray as the food pantry opens tomorrow that we'll just be a light to everyone we come into contact with. Thank you so much for praying for me and my team!