December 6th

Today we got to sleep in till 8:30, after breakfast and Nate’s devo, we got ready to go out. No one but Whit and Melissa knew what we were doing. We boarded the bus and headed out with our bibles and journals. We ended up going to this park called Balboa Park and getting to spend an hour doing personal time with the Lord in this gorgeous park. We then gathered together and did a couple worship songs and a few people shared what they had gotten out of their personal time. It was great. We then ate lunch, several of us went and got papusas. They were delicious! When we got home, many of us scrambled to prepare for the outreach in the evening so that they could go to the internet café. We then headed out to another small community just outside of San Salvador to an orphanage/church where we did an outreach with a fair amount of children, teens, and a few adults. It was so nice to see some teenagers. This was probably our smallest outreach yet, but it was a lot of fun. Autumn gave the “message”, which I didn’t get to hear, but I know it went well, and I came over just while it was ending. The youth pastor was sharing things with everyone and Erik was translating. He told the group that he wanted to do dramas to draw in more teenagers and then he started talking about who we are. He said that when you look in the mirror, to remember that you are beautiful/handsome and perfect. God didn’t make a mistake when he created you the way you are. It had a strong impact on me and probably many other people who heard his words. For dinner we had (take a wild guess what) papusas, and travis was supposed to do devos, but he asked Chris Kingston to do devos, which he said he would. It was a great day.