Update Part 1

It's been a long time since I've blogged, but I'm back today to do some quick updates...I went to Belize earlier this month. I was part of a group from Fellowship Church that went to hang out with our missionary friend, Paul and help out in some of his villages. He has a missions organization called International Servants. Paul is a great guy! He has such a heart for the people of Belize and is definitely interested in the eternal outcome of their lives. The kids were awesome! We had such a fun time playing with them, making salvation bracelets, and sharing the love of Christ with them!

The adults were neat as well. One lady in particular stood out to me. We were in a spanish speaking village and I was trying to get the kids to tell me the spanish name for animals (I was acting out the animals). This lady started to yell out the name of the animals in spanish. It was the funniest thing! There was also the day when we had a huge group of kids and we were all kicking this huge soccer ball around. I have never been so dirty in my life as I was after getting hit with that soccer ball, but it was so much fun! (it had been raining that morning and the ball was picking up a lot of mud).

One day we got to go to the river near where we were working and got to swim there. Paul told us to bring a bar of soap for a bath. We all thought that was funny so we did it! On our fun day, we go to snorkle with sharks and sting rays....so cool! And then we had this amazing beach BBQ with chicken, fish, and pork chops. The food there was amazing, too (even the gibnut - aka rat). And yes, I did eat it!! And yes, it does taste a little bit like chicken! A few of the other trip highlights were seeing the Howler monkeys and having them eat out of my hand, going to a banana farm, attending a worship service with some Belizians, and just the general experience of getting to know some really neat people from our church and from Belize. If you care the see the 400+ pictures of the trip, they are located at Belize pics.