Week 1 is over and I'm exhausted…
It was a very good week though…
Team Luminous and Team Favoured helped out Joca with his Sand Boarding and Skim Boarding ministry and it was really fun!
Sand boarding is pretty much like snow boarding except it's on sand dunes. We are in the desert afterall. The hike out in the sand dunes is pretty tough and then once we get to the right area we run down one to climb up the biggest one and then once we board down, we have to climb back up again..it's quite the workout…
We helped to dig the hole for skim boarding and it's about ankle deep and pool sized and we fill it with a tarp and then spray water on it. Using boards we glide across on the water standing up…so sort of like surfing…it didn't work all that well so we just had fun spraying each other with water and got soaked 😛
These are great ministries though and a great way to build relationships with the boys (Age 7-15) in the surrounding neighborhood.
One of the days we went to the sand dunes to help clean them and pick up trash because there is trash everwhere….
Something Joca said was about how not to be angry and wonder who left the trash, but rather to pick up the trash happily and even to reflect on the own trash we have in our lives and to let those go…
We also went over the story of Jonah and something interesting he had us do was to think about the questions the captain and crew asked Jonah after they cast lots and found out it was his fault for the storm…
"Then they said to him, "Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?"" – Jonah 1:8 ESV
As Christians we know that when bad things happen it is on account of our own sinful natures and we are at fault, but for the kids that we meet…they might blame God or their parents or whomever for the tough times they go through…
So learning to think of things from the shoes of those that we meet is really important beacuse as one of the men we met when we went door to door evangelizing said…you cannot force someone to believe in something, it has to be a choice…
I'm excited for the next couple of weeks here in Peru 🙂
