Missions Trip 101

So these past 9 days I was on a missions trip. First day, we left after breakfast around 9. It was approx 7 hrs to get there but ended up taking 9 hrs ish, we got there around 6 - 7 ish. So fairly long day driving but we got the joy of having 3 microbuses to have, the 2 we have at port and a rented one which we had 16 in it and 8 in each of the other buses so it was very nice and spacey so that made it half decent. Went to our families house right away and Mari was my roomate and so that was nice. They had a small house with only one bedroom and so they left every night after we went to bed to go and sleep at her sister's house which was just down the road. The next morning we were picked up and went to the church for breakfast, it was saturday and we had youth group to get ready for, so the whole day we hung out with kids - youth and did different games and what not and in the evening with the youth we had a service where the band played and jeremey spoke and it was very good, and we lit candles and it was super pretty. the following day we had sunday school and so i was in charge of ages 1-3 and that was good, the band played in the service and Daikel spoke and I hung out with little kids with kattia, and adair and it was very fun! than we got a chance to hang out with our tico familes that we were staying with but our family wasnt home so we ended up hanging out with kelsey and adair and went to a coffee shop and met a lot of ppl from our group there and it went from 4 to a lot! so fun! and the coffee stuff there is soo good! after when our family was back, we went there and hung out with them for a bit than monday came rolling around. monday was our first work day and we had 2 projects we were gonna work on, an elementary school and a house for a lady(fixing the ceiling and giving her a new washing area) and most ppl went to the elementary school but me, austin, darren, daikel, kiley, and rebecca went to the house and worked there that week and that was fun! soo good, and other hired workers were there and so we worked with them. mostly just did the shed thing while they did the ceiling inside. however carlos and austin helped a bit with the ceiling. after work day we had the homeless people ministrys and so on monday evening we went around and invited homeless people to the church for the following evening and gave them food and drinks and it was good community. the following day(tuesday) we worked some more and than in the evening it was when the homeless ppl came and so they did and we chatted with them, carlos shared his testimony and we gave them hotdogs and drinks and than asked if anyone wanted to know Jesus and what not and it was a very good night. On wed we didn't work at all. we were in schools all day. the morning we had 7-9 grade and played games, did a skit, jose shared some and it was very fun! met some awesome ppl, and in the afternoon had grades 10-12 and did the same thing for the most part and in the evening we went to the elemntary school where we were painting and hung out with the kiddies there and played games, jeremey told them the story of david and goalith and adam and heather acted that out, quite enteraining! than at the end we had a pinata for the differtn ages, and that was really fun! and than we left. thurs and friday we had no ministrys so we just worked all day! got a lot done! for the most part...however for the house project we were waiting around a decent amount for the cement, for other various things and so it was a lot of sitting but we still managed to get it all done apart from the railing and sticking the sink up but we finished everything else! pics are gonna be up either tonight or tomorow so defintly check them out :) and the rain stopped us some as well but it was good. our team was pretty awesome. on thurs evening some of us went to play soccer with a bunch of ticos at the school we were at and that was soo fun! however my running shoes are falling apart and full of cement so i ended up playing barefoot against everyone with shoes and so my foot hurts soo much! i cant put full amount of pressure on it but its slowly gettting better...slowly...lol. friday we finished early and ended up going to the border for a bit, bunch of cheap stuff so that was good, had no money so i ended up just looking but it was still fun! left after breakfast on saturday morning and got there sometime in the evening and when we got back, we had a surprise from the staff...they put up christmas decorations, trees and decorated the dining room all pretty and had a lovely meal adn it was just soo awesome and feels so much like christmas here now and its great! i love it :) and that is my missions trip in a nutshell!