Final Day!

Hey all!

Sorry for the lack of blog updates the last couple days, I have been sick and haven’t had the energy at the end of long days to figure out posting and such. We are currently halfway done with our journey home and looking forward to sleeping in our own beds tonight! Thankfully last night my brother was able to have us over at his house for a good home cooked meal, so everyone seems pretty relaxed and ready to roll out early this morning!

Thursday we did food distribution for the second time this week and then got back to our jobs cleaning and helping to maintain the church so that all we had to do on Friday was finish up a few big jobs and then head to the beach! Johnny, the guy who coordinated us being there and set up all the jobs, mentioned that we had gotten through all that he had prepared for us faster than he thought so we were even able to do some extra beyond what they had hoped! The funny part of the half day at the beach is that it was the only time all week that it was cloudy in the afternoon, so it wasn’t the hottest day but still completely different than the Oregon coast!

Friday finished up with bread-breaking, probably one of my favorite times of the week as we build community, share some memories from the week, and encourage others. It’s the time for me, as a leader, that I get to ask the students what they learned about Jesus through the week and what impacted them the most. I have been sick most of the week and so I haven’t been able to really work a ton with them beyond the first day, so it was awesome to be able to meet with a lot of them 1v1 to process and discuss the chaos of the week.

Thanks again for your prayers and we would ask you to continue to pray for us today as we finish the journey! A lot of us are drained and exhausted, so also pray that we show love to each other despite tiredness. We look forward to seeing you all at home tonight!

-Brian