Yesterday was mud day..
Woke up got dressed.. jeans, tshirt, and jeans.... clothes that were ready to get dirty...

I was kinda nervous.. I knew last time the team came back people were exhausted.. and alot of people kinda got sick afterwards...
The night before in our group devotions we were each given a word.. mine was endurance.. so thats exactly what I prayed for the nite before and our bus trip there... and thats I and my team got..

Our whole team worked on one house yesterday... The part we worked on was this hallway, connected to 2 rooms.. and then one of these rooms was connected to a whole... Our leaders started assigning jobs.. all the guys were summoned to start filling up buckets of mud and tossing them out of the window.. and then some girls were chosen... it was like being on the price is right.. nikki mashburn come on down..I walked down the steps to began my journey into the mud.. it was like 3 inches below my knew...

went to the first room... we would push the mud towards the window, and someone would stand at the window with a pail throwing it out... I thought just this one room would take all day.. but it only took 20 minutes... we finished that room, the hallway, and the other 2 rooms all that day... we took a lunch break and of course we had some fun along the way... our group is all about singin...

so obviously by the end of this we are completely covered in mud... those of us actually down in the pit of mud..apparently i looked like amazon woman as i had mud all over my face with shovel in hand...whatever i looked like.. i really enjoyed what we did.. thats no lie...

before leaving we had to clean our brooms, shovels, and buckets... so we walked to the river.... as we were washing... i told everyone.. im sorry but i just got to do this... so i just layed down in the river... in its filth and all... but hey... it got the stains out.. eventually we were not only washing the mud off of our equipment.. but our bodies and clothes as well...

it was a great day...
one of the songs we sang...

i wanna be your hands, i wanna be your feet.

i hope these people saw that Jesus was the difference in our life... it was more than just wanting to help these people fix their earthly home... it was ultimately making sure they had an eternal home..


newayzzz.. today normal day ... except...
went to the nursing home... and all the old peeps are lined up in chairs gettin there hair cut... this led to us being asked if we wanted our hair cut... we agreed... 3 of us got hair cuts!!! these girls were just in beauty school.. but hey .. it was free... and it looks pretty good if i say so myself.. its shorter than i thought it would be... but my spanish vocab when it comes to the beauty shop needs some improvement as i found out today...

village tomorrow...

last day here on the compound here Friday..

saturday.. maybe waterfall and making more tortillas with susie

sunday ... antigua!!!

monday... we start gettin shipped out to our houses for the second month!!

mucho amor..

ps... thanks summer camp for your lil notes!! I was just talking to some friends here how its going to feel so weird going back home and not going to summer camp and how much fun I have always had with yall...