Dear Bloggers,
Rainy season was supposed to start on June 1st. Instead, we got some rain for a couple weeks before that and then it has been scorching hot since then. We haven’t had rain or anything. All of a sudden we have hurricane warnings, flood watches, and we are in the middle of a tropical depression. It rained for two days straight. The river is completely flooded and the lower bridge is underwater. You seriously can’t see it at all. We were driving over the big bridge and the water was so high…pretty cool to see but scary to think how much flooding is happening. Luckily we live at the top of a hill and we probably won’t get any flooding in our house but downtown could be washed away at any point with rains like these. I find this all very exciting.
Church has been awesome here. Today they confirmed four more people who got baptized last Sunday and tonight there are two more baptisms. Getting the baptisms here isn’t what is hard, it is keeping them coming and actually being converted to the ways of God. The missionaries are doing their part, but not all the members are putting in the effort to fellowship their new members.
Life has been kinda crazy with all eighteen of us in one house! Almost everyone is getting a long, and we are learning from each other every day.
I’ve been working really hard with Calvin to create this Leadership Camp or seminar series. We have ten classes planned out that we will hopefully be starting the end of July and go until we leave. We have awesome topics to be teaching and hope to be able to get a few locals to be guest speakers at a few of these. We hope that this will be something to give these students the confidence they need to make change in their community as well as a catch on their resumes; something to stand out and say I ‘m a good leader, I learned a lot at these seminars and I can show you-so hire me! It has been exciting to put together. I have also been working with Ben and Marissa to get some money management classes started. Everything has been approved and the lesson plans are in progress.
Hope everyone is well!!
