What a week! I think that was one of the fastest weeks ever.
It is quiet around camp because the majority of the squads have left over the last few days to start on their own mission trips. Just three squads left here now.
Yesterday I had a peaceful afternoon, almost everyone else left campus to make a Walmart/Target run so it was a ghost town at camp. It gave me some time to make phone calls and hang out with the small group of us that stayed back. This included doing laundry, eating snacks and watching Mama Mia.
We have been having a worm problem. It has been raining for the last week, which is a nice change. However, the rain means all of the earthworms come up. This is fine except that they wiggle their way between the floors of our tents and the footprint tarps under our tents. Then they proceed to die and smell like fish bait. We all woke up with dead worms under our tents. Baby wipes and hand sanitizer were our best solutions, if any of you have a better solution don’t hesitate to help a girl out 🙂
On a different note, through these last couple weeks we have been learning about who Jesus really is, why he is worth living for, and how to share the hope we have in him with other people. Thursday we put this into action. We loaded up into vans and drover to downtown Gainesville. There we split up into groups of twos and threes and practiced starting conversations and praying for strangers. The first person my trio went up to was an older man who was sitting in a coffee shop. It turned out he had an injured knee and had just got back from a trip to South Africa where he had been training pastors. God is so good, we prayed for his knee and it was healed! He could stomp on it, no problem. The rest of our time downtown was spent praying for people and talking to them in general, it was a really sweet time.
New wildlife updates include: leaf bugs, a snake, a toad and the biggest spider I have seen yet.
hugs and kisses!
-Rosella
