Where to begin. Trinidad is amazing. We started our day off today being able to just have some awesome quiet times. The boys went out early to a nearby park this morning to pray and read while the girls had their time on the outside porch. It was so cool to just be able to stop everything and just have some alone time with God and really feel his presence. Next the teens all headed out to the church building for a parenting workshop we were having today. This was a great experience to just connect to the parents. Us teens were all able to talk to the parents about what their parents have done in their life that has really helped us to grow spiritually and want to have our own relationship with God. Although we all feel like we didn't do much, we were soon to find out that God had used us more than we could even imagine. It is so encouraging to know that when we just give a little in the hand of God it is always enough for him to work thorough us. I think we are all just really encouraged to see how God used us all today to do his work and make a difference.
Next we all headed out to the St. Mary's Orphanage. This was incredible. The teens went down with Jasmine and Lin and met up with some of the disciples from the church down here who work with Hope. Here we were able to really just spend some time with the kids and really just relate to them. The boys started up a game of football, or what we call soccer, with the older boys and were really able to connect with them. The girls really spent some time with the younger kids playing games, blowing bubbles, going on lion hunts. It was really great to just see this children and be able to just have fun with them. I think what we all really went away with from this was just seeing that even though these children have so little and have lost so much, they were able to give their hearts away so easily and so fully. These kids were so joyful and trusting and loving. We all learned so much more from them they I think we though we would. Those kids have made an impact of all of our hearts that I know will stay with us.
Lastly tonight we all were able to just join together as a whole group today and just share about our day. The Hickmans and the Mackenzies told about their success with the parenting workshop that went on all day (even after us teens left) and the singles were able to just share about how great their singles class went tonight. And in case all you guys don't know... JESUS WAS SINGLE. This has been a long joke with the church making that message across. It was really cool to see tonight also just the closeness of the group and how much we have all grown together, spiritually as well as just as friends. As we shared about all we learned and took out of today, it was so encouraging to learn from each other and just to be able to have that time. The devo ended with us almost dying of laughter from all the jokes we have from this trip alone. As I looked up it was so awesome to see how this group, in just four days, has gotten so close and has created relationships that will last for a life time. Isn't that the great thing about the kingdom? We all can bond through our love for God and our heart to live out his will.
Well that's about all I got for tonight. Hope you guys are enjoying this and the parents aren't missing all of us too bad! Love you all!


P.S. let the world know.... AMBER HEIBECK CAN SINGGGGGGG.