Hey! Hopefully everything is going well back on the home front!
We woke up this morning, just like every morning, rushed to Church, ate some breakfast. Then we had a session this morning in which we talked the how the spirit is often willing but the flesh is weak. Lloyd suggested we should train ourselves in the easy times, on the nice flat "plains" per say, than in the hard times, when we are climbing the mountains or trying to get through the low valleys.
After session we headed out to ICYA once again. Once there we had a pretty chill morning playing bump, making sandwiches (we were also informed by Dorian that we should have sore knees by the end of the day if we really gave it our all playing with the kids) until the kids started to arrive at 12 again. The kids started arriving, and we played basketball and tag with them until one. Then we jumped on a bus, the kids ate and we headed down to Kid City.
At Kid City we got very tired, but it was completely worth it. The kids enjoyed it so much, there was a lot of piggy back rides, and some crawling through the narrow passages with the children still riding us. So... there were a lot of sore knees at the end of the day. But it was so worth it, and there are so many stories to tell about the kids today. One of my experiences was a little girl styling my hair all the way home from Kid City with a comb... with her insisting that Hilary take pictures of each new hair style. Then of course when we got back to ICYA there were walk homes and then cleaning. After we were finished cleaning, we had a quick meeting then swiftly returned to NKMB (the church where we eat and have sessions). After showers and Timmies, we had a delicious meal with probably the most food yet due to extra leftovers from yesterday. Then we had some free time (during which some of us fell asleep) until the evening session... In the evening session we had a great worship service, then we had communion along with a message about praying for Winnipeg, other communities and other peoples or places God has put on our hearts.
After the session we went to McDonalds (don't worry, most of us still had the supplied bedtime fruit snack) . We got take out though because we were in a hurry to get back for team time. The roads were quite slippery and we missed our turn off for Douglas Mennonite Church with the fifteen passenger van (where we sleep), however we did a u turn and came back... this time making the turn.
We had a great team time in which all the youth were encouraged by their Mission Trip Small Group leaders, and we closed with prayer.
All the best
Yours Truly,
Reilly
