The past eight days have been exceedingly gracious to us. But today's events were probably one of the most spiritual days the team has encountered. In order to understand the whole story, I will recite the metaphor of Sabrina. On Thursday we shared a recap of our testimonies. When Sabrina's turn came up she announced her speculation on the mountain behind the Mission of Hope campus which presents a winding road leading up it. She said that that road represents life and that we are all in the same bus trying to get up it. The bus driver is God because he knows where we're going and how to best get there. Our Hope Rep, Daniel, is considered Jesus, because he gives us reassurance to keep faith in the driver and contains knowledge in all the coming events. And our translator, Kensley, is seen as the Holy Spirit telling us what the world is saying and how to respond. Sabrina said a little more but thats the gist of the metaphor.
ANYWAYS. Today we actually went up that road, which was a mind blowing ride due to the previous said metaphor, and visited a village in the mountain. The name of the village kind of escapes my mind due to pronunciation and spelling issues. HOWEVER, it was an amazing experience and is considered the most fun village we've visited. The kids were nice and even the parents partially participated in the games we played. Vince, our male chaperone, really connected with this one shy kid who was kind of positioned away from the other children. The kid had no pants on but that didn't stop Vince.
Afterwards, we went further over the mountain to this waterfall ... I have name remembering problems so bare with me. But the name of the town that the waterfall was in is called Waterfalls. So we'll just call it Waterfalls Falls. So at Waterfalls Falls we ate our gourmet lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and proceeded to the falls. Waterfalls Falls is a local tourist attraction, so obviously, it was very beautiful. We were able to climb up the current of the falls and stand underneath the falling water. Which really hurt. We also got our first team photo.
Weird thing though. Whilst site seeing and playing around at the falls, we saw some ladies burn a platform of candles, place some food, and project some aura energy by means of squirmish hand gestures. At the time, no one thought twice about the act, but we soon learned afterwards that they were performing Voodoo. Reminiscing on the event, it was very dark and almost sad to watch. That such people find it necessary and habitual to appease the bad instead of fight the bad. Not to be judging, but I didn't really like it.
In order to not leave this blog on such negativity, I shall tell you all a very recent story. I saw this lizard on the ceiling and I told Regan because she wanted a lizard. But she couldn't reach it so I got a towel and attempted to blow it off the ceiling. After this one hard whip, the lizard just vanished. Not even joking, it just disappeared. Kind of weird but we laughed.
Anyways, it was a fun day. We're all safe and doing good. Sucks that we're leaving soon. I have to go now because apparently I've been writing too long.
Peace out!
- Joel Robins
ANYWAYS. Today we actually went up that road, which was a mind blowing ride due to the previous said metaphor, and visited a village in the mountain. The name of the village kind of escapes my mind due to pronunciation and spelling issues. HOWEVER, it was an amazing experience and is considered the most fun village we've visited. The kids were nice and even the parents partially participated in the games we played. Vince, our male chaperone, really connected with this one shy kid who was kind of positioned away from the other children. The kid had no pants on but that didn't stop Vince.
Afterwards, we went further over the mountain to this waterfall ... I have name remembering problems so bare with me. But the name of the town that the waterfall was in is called Waterfalls. So we'll just call it Waterfalls Falls. So at Waterfalls Falls we ate our gourmet lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and proceeded to the falls. Waterfalls Falls is a local tourist attraction, so obviously, it was very beautiful. We were able to climb up the current of the falls and stand underneath the falling water. Which really hurt. We also got our first team photo.
Weird thing though. Whilst site seeing and playing around at the falls, we saw some ladies burn a platform of candles, place some food, and project some aura energy by means of squirmish hand gestures. At the time, no one thought twice about the act, but we soon learned afterwards that they were performing Voodoo. Reminiscing on the event, it was very dark and almost sad to watch. That such people find it necessary and habitual to appease the bad instead of fight the bad. Not to be judging, but I didn't really like it.
In order to not leave this blog on such negativity, I shall tell you all a very recent story. I saw this lizard on the ceiling and I told Regan because she wanted a lizard. But she couldn't reach it so I got a towel and attempted to blow it off the ceiling. After this one hard whip, the lizard just vanished. Not even joking, it just disappeared. Kind of weird but we laughed.
Anyways, it was a fun day. We're all safe and doing good. Sucks that we're leaving soon. I have to go now because apparently I've been writing too long.
Peace out!
- Joel Robins
Hey again! Krista here, sounds like you're having a great time! Once again, can't wait to hear more about it! :)
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