Brace Yourselves, haven't blogged since Sunday

Monday

Was our first day of work, we painted a house a bright bright green, and all the neighbours disapproved of the colour. We demolished the overhang because it was rotten from termites and we saw fire ants and termites while demolishing. My work group is so much fun and it was amazing how we didn't know each other and yet we worked together easily and we were a team. We made new friends by playing bump and slap jack.

 

 

Tuesday

It rained today and we got to go to the mall instead of working in the morning. I didn't get anything but it was fun! For work after our little expedition to the mall my group stayed at the church and this girl named Allison and I cleaned out eaves troughs from the roof and while we were on the roof we saw a gecko so we went to corner it and it turned out to be dead. So we decided to keep the dead gecko and place it into the boys' shower, just to see what would happen.... It was really funny; who knew boys could scream louder than girls. Here's a picture of the bunch of kids that we are with this week.

 

 

Wednesday

Our group hosted devotions this morning and we decided to try to teach the group a new version of Jesus loves me, it ended up pretty much me singing in front of everybody but people thought it was cool so I made some more new friends! Woo! But we also sang "These are the Days of Elijah" which involves actions and if you look you can see Cindy jamming out in the back.

We had an actual work day today and we had to repaint the lady's house because the neighbours complained. I'm not sure if Canada has this but you have to confront your community manager if you want to do any landscaping, lawn decorations, house colour, etc. before you do anything, we called it the community cult, but anyway we had to repaint it. And the finishing product was beautiful and also ended up in a paint fight and I got a paint roller rolled on my head, and all over my shirt. Muriel, the owner of the house that we fixed up, was truly touched and began telling us how much our work meant to her and told us of her struggles she has gone through. She said that she could see God in our work, which is pretty cool. Serve is an amazing experience and I strongly recommend it to anybody. Today's theme for devotions was to be transformed and to become new. Get rid of your sin and give it to God, become knew and holy.

And after us working we were lucky enough to finish in decent time so we got to go to the beach with Martin and Julie's group! In this picture we are out jumping the waves.

Thursday

Today was our last work day; they had no more off site jobs so we painted bumpers in the church parking lot. And after we finished that up we went, with Cindy's group, on a search for manatees and crocodiles. Unfortunately we did not see any but we walked around on a trail and that was pretty. Our sermon for the day was at the beach while the sun was setting. 

It was about being surrendered. Surrender yourself to God, surrender everything including your family. Give yourself to God and surrender to him.

 

Friday

Today was our last dayL. We spent it at this water park called Adventure Island. It was super fun, and everyone wore sunscreen and had a blast. Its kinda depressing that we all have to go because we all are really close and we love spending time with each other. Today's devotion theme was to "Be Free". This was the most emotional one because everyone shared things and knew that the next morning everyone would be leaving. But luckily our curfew was 1:00 so we had lots of fun dancing and talking and just chilling. We all were up to watch the first group's bus leave at 3:30 and it was really depressing, no one wanted to go. Now it's Saturday and we left at 5:00 this morning, really sad to leave Florida, coincidentally as I'm writing this in the car it's raining like in the movies during a sad part and now I miss everything to do with Serve. 

 

 

 

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