Tales of an Ecuadorian Dryer Conquer [and foosball champion]

Yes it’s true. Saturday night I became an undefeated foosball champion [ok almost undefeated; but I’m claiming it] and Sunday morning I conquered the tricky Ecuadorian Dryer.

I definitely think that both of those feats are causes for celebration almost two weeks into this thing called the World Race.

For the last week we’ve been getting up in the morning doing devotions over breakfast and then heading over to a local school and to help teach English and in the afternoon we’ve been running an after school program VBS style. Lots of kiddos jumping around, singing, listening to music, playing games [such as the most AMAZING version of Red Light Green Light ever] and learning about Super Heros in the Bible. This week we are taking it a step further and adding music and computers to the mix. RiddleB and I are manning the music station which should equal mass hilarity and of course slight headaches.
 

And Saturday nights we’re hosting a youth night. Think high school youth group and add in a language barrier, some hot dogs, all the youth staring at us as we wobble and me kicking butt at foosball.

We’ve visited some awesome outdoor markets, visited the Equator 

and even met up with another one of our teams in the Historic district of Quito . We’ve made more progress in conquering the bus system and as long as we can get to La Marin we are set. And also as a team we’ve sadly been getting eaten up by ninja vampire flies [sand flies] and according to google there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. 

And we’re continuing to learn how to live in community.

One of the parts of living in community is doing feedback. And from Wednesday-Sunday this past week all three of our squad leaders were hanging out with us. Well our four squad leaders if you count Joshua’s beard. [And we do. It gives great insight]. So while Tiffany, Kelly and Joshua we’re here we had one on ones with them and also did a night of Super Feedback. So after they prepared us some awesome brick oven pizza we curled up in couches and settled into start. During super feedback we go around and one person at a time give everyone something positive that we’ve observed and something constructive.

I bit the bullet and went first.

Sitting in the hot seat for feedback is like preparing yourself for battle even though you have absolutely nothing to be defensive about. Everything that is going to be said for you is out of love. 

And after having a one on one with Tiffany 
and sitting through super feedback I realized something.

[one of my AMAZING squad leaders]

There have been so many lies spoken over me that I can’t even find the truth in my life. 

Because all of the truths and all of the life that has been spoken over me the past few months at training camp and at launch I still find it hard to set them in my brain.

We weeded out part of Ana’s garden Monday morning so that the kids can plant vegetables in them and I kept accidentally picking out plants not weeds. The weeds had so over grown the plants that you couldn’t tell the differences between the weed and the plant. 

The lies in my life have gotten so big in my life that I can’t distinguish between the truth and the lie. So when I pull up the lies I accidentally throw out the truth.

A part of my life over this year is going to be tossing out the lies and being firm in the truths I know. 

“The lie Satan tells you is the last thing he wants you to get too. Probably the place you’re most powerful. And as much as Satan is there God is there even more”
–Tiffany Noel 

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