So on Sunday we had a really chill day and one of the students decided to make a video! This is the first one, but he is hoping to do more and feature each student. Attached a link, hope it works and enjoy!
TODAY IS MOVE IN DAY!!! CRAZY! I can't believe it is finally here! Bridge Street Mission School here I come!! For all of you who don't know I am doing a 8 month adventure of seeking God! I will be living in the West Side of Grand Rapids in an apartment with 5 other students and 4 staff! We will be living in community with each other for the next couple of months! My roommate is the only other girl student and the best part of that is she is one of my best friends from high school! I am so excited to go through this journey and do life with her for the next 8 months at least!!! I am sure we will have out ups and downs, but I am thank God that it is you Sarah! So moving in today, hanging out tomorrow; doing some grillin! Then we are going on a camping trip for a couple of day and I quote, "This will be a time of dune climbing, canoe flipping, building relationship, sharing life stories, praying for each other, etc." SO again SUPPPPER EXCITED!!! I want to than...
Time has moved so fast! I can remember ten months ago when I had catch-up coffee with a friend and that is when God opened the door for the mission school! Then four months ago I moved in to an apartment complex with ten other people! We went on a camping trip to get to know each other. And now we have gone through 13 weeks of life together and we are still alive :) We have gone through 13 weeks of trying to drink out of a gushing fire hose of information! It has been great, but now my brain is like dead! It is so good don't get me wrong, just very hard to now process everything. Time to dig for the gold nuggets:) In 11 days we leave for Guatemala on January 3 for two months! I am so excited to see what God is going to do there and in us! I believe He has already started doing things there and here! We are going to be helping the Christian schools in La Limonada. La Limonada is a large slum in Guatemala City. The first couple of weeks we will be helping get...
This past week we send time getting acclimated to our surroundings here in Guatemala. We did a little of sight seeing and visiting places where we will be working. Sunday we went to an English church (Journey) that is in the school that Heather use to teach, Christian Academy of Guatemala (CAG). In the afternoon we went to Antigua to the markets. Hair wraps Brandon! pollo compearo Look at that group:) Monday we went on at tour with Joel in Guatemala City. He told us a lot about the history of Guatemala and we started off in the cemetery. Cemeteries in Guatemala are a lot different the US as you will see in some of the pictures. We then proceed to go to the historical district of the city where we were the only white people. Guatemala has been through a lot in the past 60 years between civil war, genocides, and corruption. This is Joel This a place where hundreds of innocent Guatemalans were murder And then on the other of ...
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