Today we woke up from experiencing sleeping in the "Barn"
(its not actually a barn, its the main room for activities that they call the
barn). From the moment we woke up the serving began, of course after eating
breakfast. Some of us went with Kami and Rut to hand out free coffee to the
college students. While the rest of the group went straight to finishing
painting projects from yesterday. While todays projects where more relaxed than
yesterday, it provided us with great opportunity to enter into life
conversations with those that we were working with. Go team bonding!!!
After the first part of the day, we walked to a resturant near by
for lunch. It was AMAZING! Some of us ordered the food that Jordan
and Kami suggested, a pita type sandwhich, while others got hamburgers and
nachos.
Once returning from having extremely stuffed stomachs, we began to
prepare for En Vivo, the college program that El Pozo leads. It was really cool
to see how the missionaries prepare themselves after a busy day to be ready for
the students. They picked a song, and while laying on the floor we spent time
praying, and relaxing.
Then it was time for the students to arrive. Our challenge was to
not hide behind things such as serving dinner or doing dishes, but to go out
and build relationships. For some of us, this was completly out of the confort
zone, but we all mangaged to make friends.
As the night came to an end, we could really see the friendships
that were built. Some of us learned a new game called Around the World. It is
EXTREMLY intense but SO much fun! Some of us sat around the bonfire and others
helped with cleaning up.
Finally it was down to our team and two other students. Some of
the team called it a semi early night, while others were past the point of
exhaustion but were having a blast sitting in a circle talking with the two
students. We were joking around, and talking about our favorite things. Then
one question was asked that lead us into a serious conversation involving some
of us sharing parts of our story. The simple question asked was " how many
siblings do you have." We finally called it a night but agreed to
hang out tomorrow night and possably build a fort.
Today was great day of serving, deep conversation with team
and friendship building.
Team Mexico.
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