April 16th Day 4

Today we split up into two teams; one went back to the work sight to finish up the house, and the other went to the bath house.

The bath house project consists of bathing, clothing, and feeding children, as well as removing the lice from their hair. We were separated into a girls and boys team and set up at a workstation on opposite sides of the bath house area. Today we were able to work inside two small wooden shacks with dirt floors instead of the usual assortment of tents which the bath house ministers normally set up. Inside we set up different stations; one for bathing, one for clothing, one for foot washing, and one for lice removal and hair styling. After the children filed in and out of the shack they were lead outside to an area where they were able to play games and win candy. At the end of the day, we cleaned and packed up the workstations and returned to the dormitory

(the returning group for day 3 along with the Gonzalez family,
"the work sight, they built a house" - Makinzie Thomas)

Actually, about half of us went back to the house and finished the roofing and made the rest of the inside of the house. It was a lot of fun to be hanging out with the family and seeing the expressions on their faces as they looked at their new house. It was totally uplifting to feel the gratitude from them even though we couldn't understand the language that well.

(the family we built the house for)

Tonight we were asked to say a word that describes our day, the words we all used were; fun, selfless, amazing, indescribable, blessed, inspired, constructive, awestruck, content, selfish, heart warming, amazing, emotional, humbling, sacrifice, blessing, grateful, blessed, everywhere, without, humility, love, tired, reflective, accomplished, encourage, connections, overwhelmed, and inadequate. We also had a good talk with Aaron, the man in charge of the whole of spectrum ministries. He challenged us to not be selfish in everything we do, that a true servant is put to the test when he's treated like one. We would like prayer for our trip to the beach tomorrow and to retain everything we've learned this week and to apply it to our lives when we get back to california. This will be our last post until we return home. We will put out one more post with Saturday evening updating you all with the information from tomorrow along with anything else we think you might enjoy. We will also post 1 last blog with a video of the trip in the weeks to come. Thanks again for your continual prayers everyone.

Jared Rohrer (Grade 11), Hannah Wang (Grade 12),
& Makinzie Thomas (Grade 6)