For the first week of ministry its been pretty amazing. I’ve been playing soccer with the kids and a couple of them try teaching me Spanish and they usually stop because I’m bad at it!
So the fist day of ministry I kinda just stood there because I didn’t know how to ask if I could play and the one time the kid understood he told me he doesn’t want to be on my team.
And then finally one kid let me play with him and we won 5 times in a row. The way they play is if you win you keep playing and you stay on the field.
Then there is this funny kid that walks around and yells “My name, is, Jeffery.”
And he walked up to me and bent down and hit my shoe with his hand and then pointed at himself, I was like umm do you like my shoes?
He shook his head no and then he did it again.. but then he hit his shoes then mine and I was like ohh you want my shoes and he said yes and I was like well I really like my shoes so idk! And so he got mad and ran away..
So I went on to playing soccer and I got kicked in the shin some more.
Then we were in their garden and all the kids start climbing up this tree and getting these little yellow things and then Mckenna and I got to try them and they were amazing.
Then there was this little boy that had this white shirt on and kept staring at me and I just thought it was because I’m white
or something but apparently that wasn’t it because he kept asking one of the adult how to say stuff in English. After he would ask the leader this, he’d sprint over to me and ask me the questions. I was confused as to why he kept asking me questions, but then the leader explained to me that he has a crush on you and thinks you’re pretty. But then she was laughing at me and I was like “what?” And she said “he has a crush on you, he thinks you are pretty!” I assumed this kid was 11 or 12, but to make sure McKenna asked how old he was and he told us he was 14 years old. Clearly, we cannot tell ages from the kids we work with. and then McKenna ask how old he was and he told us 14 so I guess I was off. And I was like ohh and just sat quietly and watched tell I got to play.
towards the last days of the week we (Mckenna, Page, Lindsey, and I) were playing with this little girl and she looks at me and slaps my leg and says gordo then looks at page slaps her leg and says flaco. gordo means fat and flaco means skinny so i have fat legs and then i lifted part of my shorts up and said muscle! and she lokkes at my pulls the shorts down and yelly “NOOOOOO!” SO thats pretty much all my week was!
