Day 4 - by Danielle

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  Gales Point, Belize
Thursday, July 3, 2008

Today was day 4, our first day of vbs and sports camp in the village. It was an absolutely amazing day. We started off with our daily trek through the jungle, wading through almost knee deep water all the way there. When we made it to the village, some of us drove through in the van, picking up kids to bring back to the church. We started up, and throughout the morning almost all of us met our prayer children! It was so exciting seeing the bonding that went on between our team and all the kids we met. The morning was fabulous, but the kids in the village seem to have an endless supply of energy, and by lunch we were exhausted. We were so blessed by a couple in the village who made us an awesome lunch that kept us going through the afternoon. During lunchtime we hung out with the kids and some of the other villagers selling jewellry and things across the road. Rejuvenated, we headed off to the school field with the kids for sports camp. Some of us played a huge game of soccer and others played games with the smaller kids. So many more friendships were made just by hanging out and playing with them.

When we got back to the base, we all headed straight into the ocean

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. We swam around, bodysurfing and jumping into the waves until we had to get ready for dinner. Showering was a pretty great experience...we even felt clean for a few minutes before spraying ourselves all over with Off again.

After dinner we went back to the village for bible study in the evening. Worshipping with the villagers was an awesome experience. We broke off into boy and girl bible studies, and while we were talking, the rain started. By the time we were ready to leave, it was absolutely pouring. Not the vancouver definition of pouring either - it was about twice as intense as any rain ive ever seen. Me and Jori were the only ones without raincoats and we were soaked to the skin in under a minute. Crossing the lagoon in our little boat was an unbelievable adventure, mostly because it was pouring, lightninging (suzis new word), and pitch black...finding the dock at the other shore was somehow successful, and we began our trek through the jungle in the same conditions. Through alot of worship (and disney) song singing, we made it back unscathed, but very wet and dirty. We prayed some praise for such an exciting, adventure filled day, popped some benadryl to deal with the itching bug bites, and now were headed to bed.

Love you all and thanks for the prayers
danielle
 
 
Note from the Leaders:
Parents: your girls are fantastic. We simply couldn't ask for a better team. They have taken everything with grace and patience and see it all as an adventure. Complaining is non-existance amongst our team, which is priceless. Today with the children they were simply wonderful - each had a child (or two) scooped up in her arms all day long, chasing them around and loving on them non-stop. Their energy is a beautiful thing.

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