bend. stretch. break. breath. grow.

this past week we took an 8 hour drive/ truck ride to help out a part of the Ngobe tribe, with a medical team.the tribe was crazy and cool. i found it really hard going there i had little excitment for it. when we got there we found we had to sleep on the concrete floor(which i am already doing here at the church) however this ground is dirty and no matter how we swept it didnt clean up. none of us had mats to sleep on so we had to sleep straight on the floor. good character building but little sleep as we had dogs barking through the night then a few hours of silence then the rosters were crowing. we went with a medical team and helped them out as well as hung out with the kids. i have photos up on facebook. on the last day i helped out mainly in the kitchen...which consisted of holes on concrete that you burn a fire in with huge pots to put on top. so i got really grubby with the soot...
. AND there was no showers...and no drinking water for that matter...so we had to bring water and wash in a creek which was about a 5 min walk away.....dont know how clean that water was but o well. so it was an adventure. on one of the days we did a 45min hike to the same tribe but they live in pockets in the mountain area. some of these people havnt seen white people before so it was real interesting. they were shy but we got to pray for a few people.

i also joined in on the prayer team..we prayed for all the patients that either had seen a doctor or who were about to. some of them were really moved by it. one lady was saying how she wasnt sure if God could really heal and after the end of our prayer she was crying and all she could say was thank u God thank you God. (we had an interpretor) ....on the second to last day i was standing outside exhausted from cooking and cleaning and my arthritis had flared up so i was a little sore and this little girl came and plonked herself down next to me and just beamed up at me so i sat down in the dirt with her and gave her a big grin so she copied me haha it was so funny you know how adults over express their faces to kids well she did the same back...AH i fell in love with her like that. i cant speak spanish though i was hoping God would give me the gift of tounges at that moment to speak it....woulda been shweeeeeet. but no cigar. so we played with her we bouncy ball...she would hide it and then hold her hands out with a huge grin and say no?no? till i found it then id do the same.....haha her photos are on facbook. so she stole my heart.

this is so long. as always. you will just have to suck it up and read it! :D

I got a really encouraging email from a guy a friend and I had met at the hostel when we stayed in the city. I had given him my irrisestable revolution book before I left. In the email he explained how much he was thankful for the book because it had made him see "religion" in a different way. He had always just discredited anything to do with religion. but through talking ot me and my friend britany and reading the book it made him start to think about what he was doing in this world and more about God. I had tried to explain that all this whole thing is about is Love...thats it. once we understand that everything else will carry on. after reading the book he got what i meant. so now he is looking more into this and God etc. its exciting.

Alright. The end