the past few days have been very fun of course, but also we're starting to get more into the planning stages of the summer which is really exciting.
anyways!
yesterday was our sabbath, so we went to church in the morning and then came back and hang out for a while. then we had a spontaneous walmart trip, which are always fun! we're going to make tie-dye pillow cases next sunday, yay!
then we had a candlelit dinner to our italian food while listening to music from lady and the tramp, and continued to plan how we were going to welcome in our newest staff member, "chet". i suppose i haven't really explained that, so here it goes: there's one guy who hasn't been here until today, we thought of all these crazy and funny things we could do to welcome him in. first off, his name is really chris, but we thought we would just keep calling other names that start with the letter c. and somehow, chet just stuck. so we constantly referred to him as chet before he got here. then we thought we would put all the food at his end of the table for the first meal we had together, and keep asking chet to pass everything to us. and we made a sign that said welcome, chet! which we definitely put up on the wall by the front door. and there are plenty more things i'm not thinking of, but it's probably a lot funnier to us than everyone else, but that's okay. it has seriously provided for much of our laughter. haha
moving on! after dinner, we did the myers briggs personality inventory, which was pretty accurate. i scored as an ESFJ, or the guardian provider. here's the description:
the rest of the night, we started to dissect through bible verses we had been looking up about prayer and questions such as why we pray, how do we pray, and what do we pray for. words such as righteousness, humility, being, emotion, and reverence were all mentioned, and i think they just make you analyze their true meaning and what emotions, if they are these, should we feel while we're praying.
and now today, monday!
chet came this morning, and we didn't do any of the things we told ourselves we would, of course. but we did keep his sign up, and explain all the plans we did have. and we still all him chet. haha
then we really focused today on core planning things and trying to figure out our theme. after a ton of discussion, like a tonnn, we decided on using matthew 7:7-8 to be our theme verse.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."
it was cool to think of what this verse really means and the context that it relates to. context wise, the rest of the verse talks about how god isn't going to forsake us or deceit us, and when he wants to go somewhere, or if we are asking him for something, he's not going to give us false promising or things opposite of what we are seeking. also, to me, knocking meant stepping towards what god is calling us to even when we don't what's behind the door. our knocking is committing to that call, and knowing that we can trust god is what will get us through it.
lisa also shared with us a very good mother teresa quote:
"we find Jesus in the face of the poor"
i'm excited to go into more detail with all of our plans, and am so so excited to work with the youth groups and teach them all we've been learning. also, we start to do the construction things in a few days, which i'm also excited for. still a little nervous, but i love our team and know we can do anything we put our hearts to!
also, follow john's blog on his arm journey! :)
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