Happy December 1st to everyone and happy day to those in Knoxville seeing a few flurries of snow! What a way to start such a packed month.
Let me see if I can finish off the blogging on our trip to Portugal! What an amazing God we serve. He showed us so many wonderful things, beautiful creation, tender hearts and lots of laughter!
In between my last blog and the blog previously, here are a few things that we did. We set up a picture scavenger hunt for the teens to do around the town. They had to find things like a fish or an “oversized” object and get as many people in their group in the picture as possible. Here are a few of those pictures. (reenact a scene from a movie, in a fountain, with a fish, and “hang 10”).
Online album 1…. Online album 2
Then on Thanksgiving day the whole conference group went out to the beach, taking a small ferry boat to get there. We played “dads v. kids” soccer on the beach and had a blast! It was super pretty and loads of fun.
Friday took us shopping into the larger town of Faro. The mall was already set up for Christmas. It was lots of fun.
Saturday we took the teens into Spain to see the replicas of Christopher Columbus’ ships. It was rainy and wet but we had a great time still.
Throughout the week, we played lots of silly games such as: see how fast you can pull all the tissues out of a Kleenex box… who can spray sour spray in their mouth the longest without giving up… mafia… and even a fun game called signs. There was even an incident of “cake in the face.”
Here’s the link to our entire album! Enjoy
We truly had an amazing time getting the know these teens. Often they feel like outsiders no matter where they go… never quite fitting in in the country their parents are missionaries to and never quite fitting in back in the states when they are home on furlough. They just want to be kids. So, this week allows them to be crazy and have lots of fun and to share struggles that they face with each other. It’s a great time because this small group of missionary kids is the only group of people that truly understands what each other is going through. It was awesome to hear their stories of high moments and low moments… Thank you for your support of us going on this trip! We came away changed. We learned about traveling internationally (you learn something every time), we learned about missions work with ABWE, we learned about how it feels to be a missionary kid, we learned how to get creative on the fly when it’s raining, we learned how to sit and enjoy hearing the stories of these teens, we learned how precious God has made each one of these teens, and most of all we learned how easy it was to fall in love with people after only knowing them for less than 1 week. Thank you for sharing in this journey.
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