JourneyMissions2010

Talofa!

This is Melissa writing on behalf of Rob, as he was just asked to teach a class on Hagai to the Old Testiment Class in about 5 minutes from now.

Our Wednesday started off the usual way, with a great breakfast, and attending the school devotions. Afterwards, Jason led the phenomenal team devotions in the fale by the pool, while Rob met with Otele. My favorite team moment of the entire trip occurred when each member decided to just hang out in the fale and talk. We talked and shared for over an hour before Rob joined us. We stayed there until it was time to have lunch. It was such a special moment in a series of special moments on the trip.

After 2 days of camps, the team was feeling pretty wiped out, so everyone conserved energy. An hour or so before camp started, the kids camp team started putting together a part of the craft for our lesson on the Lost Sheep, while the sports camp team met and prepared the coolers of drinks for both camps. We had a church from a couple villages down join us for the day. Their kids had never been involved in a camp like our two camps, and they really seemed to enjoy everything we did. As always the day ended with everyone just playing together on the field. Adam, Matt, Michael, Jason and Will all had little kids crawling all over them and just loving to play with them. Bethany, Molly, Drew, Rob and Azalea joined in volleyball, soccer or even rugby games. Everyone else played “duck duck goose”, and other games with the kids.

After dinner, the team prepared for what we will perform at the Fia Fia. I don’t want to spoil too much, but we are singing a couple of well known songs, the guys have created an original song of our trip as well as learning parts of a slap dance, several team members are performing a skit, and of course, our world famous line dancing! Even though we were tired, the thought of giving back just a bit to the people here helped us find the energy before lights out.

Pray for us as today’s schedule is jam packed with filling water balloons, working and playing hard, then the Fia Fia. It is hard to describe the awesomeness of the Fia Fia for those that haven’t been here before, so you will just have to come on a Samoa mission trip to see for yourself. Thank you for all your support, prayers and comments here.

We hope to have a chance to do one more blog before we leave tomorrow night, which none of us can believe the end is already here!