"This whole trip has been an amazing experience I have never had before. God has done some amazing things in my life, and was definitely evident in other people's lives as well. I just want to thank God for His faithfulness to me, and allowing everything to fall into place. God has shown me how to listen to Him, and has given me the courage to do things outside of my comfort zone. I have been very fortunate to hear many testimonies, and have learned the values and effects of God in people's life's. God has also shown me how important my own testimony is. I have enjoyed every moment of this trip, and how much God loves His children. I have also been able to connect with young children, and learn some Spanish :), and have been able to hear some amazing God stories. Just wanted to say that if anybody ever has a chance to take a trip as amazing as mine has been, then they should definitely do it, because God teaches you so much, and you have a totally different view on things you thought before. "
~ Joelle Goodbrand
" This trip has been amazing and a total eyeopening time! It has been filled with many life changing time such as when we went to church this Sunday and the sermon was about our "First Love"(God) and how we need to come back to him and that we are the ones straying away he also talked about how God keeps on calling us back to Him and how it's our choice whether to answer or not. Also earlier this week we visited a warehouse which is not very big and houses 15 families! So a couple of days after our visit we came back with a bunch of toys and you couldn't believe the smiles on these kids faces! It was truly amazing and they were all so happy even though they have next to nothing. It really made me think of how fortunate I am and how lucky I am even if I don't always remember that! God is truly amazing! And i definatly cant leave out tonight at The Golden Coral (restaurant) where we all tryed to hit Mr. G with a bowl full of whipping cream, so Cache went to put it on his seat as he sat down and as he tryed to do this he dropped it on the ground and everyone laugh like crazy! :P As well as all that fun earlier today we also went to Carlsbad which is an amazing display of God great work! It was amazing to see and i wish you all could have been there!! Oh yah and Jesus tu amar!(jesus loves you)".
~ Sydney Kraus
I'm not going to reminisce on the whole trip, as that would take too long :) I'm just gonna write about today, in which we went to Carlsbad Caverns and the Golden Corral. The caverns were insane, like seriously. It was huger than ever, and dark and cold and wet. But so so pretty :-) Seriously, it had to take such immense creativity and skill to create something like that. Everything was so incredibly intricate, with like, caves within caves, and spikes hanging from the ceiling and towers of rock, and since it was dark, the shadows cast by the little light bulbs just made everything a whole lot more interesting. :-) We hiked down for a few hours, and took the elevator up. There were cliffs and tunnels within the caverns, and awesome colors everywhere. Words and pictures can't even describe it, you have to be there. The Golden Corral was great, we tried to slide a plate of whip cream under Mr. Matheson's and Mr. G's chair as they were sitting down, but it was dropped instead. Oh well, we'll try again another time :)
~ Raina Gardner :)
Tomorrow we will be finishing up our work project at the Pentecostal Church, and doing some sorting of donations that will be brought into Juarez in the coming days. Our trip is quickly coming to a close yet we still wait in anticipation of what God will do in the last few days!
Adios for now!
Praise God for His work in and through the team. We are praying for a rich time for all and that His name would be glorified.
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