I honestly love having Snellville here. It brightens up my day everytime, ah just their presence! So this morning, I had some legit time with the Father before a breakfast of pancakes and sandia/watermelon. We went to Neustra Tierra today with the team. It is the community that is closest to the mission house. Mo and I are not going to school this week because it is sort of like their Spring Break. So next Mon-Wed, we will be hitting up the school yard for sure.
Today when we got to the community, we started digging a trench for a sidewalk from the cafeteria to the schoolhouse. Ha, I say we like I was the one doing most of the work, when in reality, I shot marbles with the kids as much as possible. But really, I did help dig the trench for a while. Ha, it was funny today because in the middle of one of our intense marble matches, all of the kids got up to go eat Guava/bean growing on the tree. They wanted the "Chelee" to follow with them, so I climbed the tree with them behind the school house and learned how to eat these split peas. They had to teach me to mastica/bite the bean, eat off the outer covering, and then spit out the seed. I was also able to get to talk with a boy named Erick for a while today. He brought out his radio and we listened to tons of music. He played some music in English, and I translated a WHOLE song by Celine Dion into Espanol for them! I can honestly say that today, I felt the most confident with my spanish than I ever have before. And it was funny, because I felt satan trying to discourage me saying "You'll never be good enough" before we got to the community. And after being there for a while, I just let everything go to the Father and just tried to love on the people there. I carried on a long conversation with Erick, and we talked about all sorts of stuff. Oh, and then Big Rafe gave me the assignment after lunch to go and tell the community that we were having VBS in 15 minutes. So I went to a bunch of the houses and told the kids to come to the school in 15 minutes for games, songs, and playing with the "gringos." Mind you, this was all in spanish. So neat to have the Father use me in that way. We had a great time with VBS and finishing digging the trench/making supports for the cafeteria. When we left I saw a little boy off to himself, so I went and talked to him. His name was Franklin, my middle name, and he looked to be about 6 years old. Come to find out, he was 10. I picked him up once, and after that he was crawling all over my arms. When I was walking over to the bus, he asked me if we were coming back tomorrow. I told him of course, but it hit me that very soon, we won't be coming back each week with new mission teams. Breaks my heart for real.
Tonight we had some legit worship with the team. I love having teams here that are so passionate about seeking the Father's face. Mace rocked it out on the guitar, and Ally led us in worship.
Well I am about to fall asleep, so I'm out. Love you all so much,
Spence
p.s. Brady family, it was so great to "talk" with yall tonight via video chat. Hopefully next time I will be able to hear yall. I love all of yall so much, and know that I am praying for each of you.