After today, I'm tired but feel so happy and blessed.
I had my little volleyball "clinic" at 10:00 this morning and pretty much just let the kids play the whole time, helping them to remember to rotate and keeping score. It was fun!
This afternoon, all of us foreigners went to the Johnston's house (the new principal and family) for a cookout. It was the Kropp family's idea and we were originally going to have it at their house, but I think it's harder to get to when it rains. It ended up not raining, but it got moved to the Johnston's just in case. The food was great...it's so nice to get home-cooked meals sometimes! But what I loved was just having so many people there together. We try to have everyone at Bible studies, but sometimes things come up for people, and usually the younger kids go off and play. Today was just a really great time of having everyone together for games and fellowship. All ages mixed, we played games and just had a blast together.
After I got back to the Jungle Barn, it turned out that there was a celebration for Aileen's birthday! Aileen and her husband work at the Barn, and she's the chef for when teams are here. I don't know who it belongs to, but there's a guitar that's usually here at the Barn and Olivia, Lauren, a couple of other adults, and I sang fun worship songs with most of the kids while either Olivia or another man played the guitar. We were having a blast singing and dancing around and doing motions to the songs that we have motions for. It's times like that when I just feel the joy of the Lord and am thankful that He can be so FUN! It's really special to see the kids choose to join in on the songs when they could go off and find other things to do. We go crazy for Jesus!
All in all, a pretty fantastic day.
:)
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