Ok, wow…. sorry for such a delay. I am going to have to rush these days because I really need to catch up to tonight so that the next time I blog, I will be able to type it all out and have everything make sense…..
Sunday
We had church, which was awesome because Austin and Megan gave the communion message, which was awesome. It was on Romans 5:5-8. Pretty impacting on them. Then during the passing of the offering, I got to perform with the teen disciples in singing Never Let Me Go by The Planetshakers. Pretty good song. Check it out!
After that, We had some lunch downstairs, and it wasn’t good. Haha…. I had like something that looked like a beef steak, but was not….. and some rice. yeah….. I am losing my adventurous touch…..
After that was a goodbye party for Andrew, who is a teen here, because we was going to be going to school in North Virgina. He is excited and can’t wait to see what God has in store for him there! Just from the conversations I have had with him, he is going to do amazing things on his campus! Good luck Andrew! I will be praying for you! I will see you when you go and visit Sammy!
After the party, we went and had a little meeting with the teen disciples seeing what what going on in their ministry, what they wanted to see, and how they can make it happen. It was a great meeting for us to get to know what was going on in the teen ministry, but also a good wake up call for them to see what was going on with their ministry and to find solutions to make it even better! It was awesome….
After that was some down time… playing hearts and apples to apples and having McDonald’s Delivered to the house!!!! I hadn’t eatin much all day and so I ordered a Big Mac and Fries…. which is a #4 here…. interesting… I Think a #1 is like fish or chicken or something….. Anyway, there are some pics of that on Facebook if you would like to check out….
Monday
We had a leaders meeting today. I guess during the good news sharing, we looked a little tired, so they actually sent us home early. Haha…. But before that,
Harlem, the lead evangelist, and Vania sat with us for lunch and told us amazing stories about the church here and how God has worked tremendously here. How the church began, the threats against it, and how God has continued to work in the church. I will not forget, but I am not going into detail in the blog because it is only a personal way to explain the experiences. They seem so unbelievable at times, yet so real because they are here today! Thanks be to God!
But I had raw shrimp for lunch…. I didn’t know that you had to peel a layer off of them in order to get to the meat….. yeah, that was sketch…. yet tasty! I won’t lie! And no, I didn’t get sick this time…. Thanks God! 
Sadly, that was all that really is mentionable for this day.
Tuesday
Another 4am wake up for school! We head off and get to teachin! I gave a devotional to the kids…. Meaning I went over some activities they did on respect and went a little deeper into it. The kids know what respect is, but they do not apply it. So I tried to help them apply it. After that was basketball time!!!! We all had some quiet times and prayers together. They were great. We also went and taught a real 8th grade class some English! We had no idea what to do, so they gave me the stuff and watched. Haha…. It was good though. I am glad for the support! We did end up finding who had a bigger wrist out of me, Austin, Jenny, and Megan. Austin won….
Then we were supposed to get some training from Harlem and Vania, but other things came up, which was totally cool. We know they are busy people and were grateful that they were going to train us! Thanks for all you guys do!!!
So we played cards all night!!!!!! We played Spades!!! And now they are addicting! We are trying to beat Austin and Peter (which by the way, they have won at least 3 games, but in the game right now, they are negative and we are very positive but not bragging of course, just being informative… 
). And the sisters encouraged the brothers by watching a scary movie with us! I was encouraged while they were there. Thanks for toughing it out! Lots of love!!!! Now I feel like I will get my ultimate punishment of watching Twilight……
Wednesday
Today was harder to wake up. Austin went to bed with a fever. I went to bed with a tummy ache. Peter went to bed with a kind of tummy ache. But I was ok when I woke up. I think all of us were ok. But it was a later start than usual. I think I finally got up at 5:40am. We left 10 minutes later.
We get to the school and I do my lesson with the kids. I asked them to write down what they wanted to learn for the rest of the time while I was there and something in their character that they wanted to grow in. Those kids are real, honest, and sincere. I pray now that God can show them how to start actually make an initiative to do it. We sang some songs. We sang all the ones I taught them…. I now owe a bunch of kids quarters!!! We did Sea of Galilee, Building up the Kingdom, and Couldn’t keep it to Myself. They did really well. They love to SHOUT about it. We got a group picture with the class and had recess. We ended getting to go into Jenny’s classroom and helping her show her 1st graders how to show respect and what are good and bad examples. It helped remind me who I was when I was a kid. I was very disrespectful and apologize to all who I have been that way, especially mom and dad and Trish…. I pray that you will continue to be patient and have mercy on me when I still struggle with it and continue to help me when I am struggling with it…… Sorry for the confession time….
So yeah, we ate at an ITALIAN restaurant!!!!! YAY!!! PIZZA!!!! It was an awesome meal. I had Ice Tea, with free refills!!! Which is a rarity here by the way. Then some garlic bread that was 1/4 eaten by me…….ahem…… and I had some Bali Pizza!!!! It was awesome! It was chicken and Pinneapple… which is the closest I will get to Hawaiian. 
SO after that, We went and took a nap at the house and I got to get on the computer for a bit. My stupid screen is going black so I couldn’t see anything. I got locked out of my room because Peter was supposed to come down with me, and decided to take a nap….. Thanks! I love ya Peter.
Then I was supposed to hang out with Holly at 4!!!!! I get to Mandy’s house and await for a call…… and I didn’t get it till 4:10 We had Wonderful Wednesday tonight and so we were cutting in on time….. But I get to the mall and she still hasn’t left her house. Haha… this was a scary moment. A short white man walking around a mall being stared at by everyone…… how about I call her and talk to her while she is on her way…. sounds good. So I chat with her on the phone while she is stuck in traffic! She was literally 2 minutes away and didn’t get to the mall 30 minutes later….. She showed up around 5:30. Haha…. but that was ok. We caught up a little bit and chatted on the phone before that. We ate some Hot Shots Burgers and talked with Holly for the remaining minutes before I was picked up.
So we went to WW and we went over Ephesians 6. The armor of God!!!!! Then we learned the National Anthem of Indonesia!!!!! That was pretty tight. I had no idea what I was singing, but it was nice. I think I am going to film people singing it…..
So yeah, I am caught up! I am going to be leaving for Bandung at 6am….. so it is 11:50pm right now and I am waking up at 4… another day. I am glad I am going to be on a 3 hour trip. It will be nice. We are going to be at the campus retreat (ICMC) for Jakarta! I will have lots of pictures and hoepfully meeting lots of people!!!!! I will write in a journal about the time and will blog it when I get back. Love you guys!!!! You’re awesome Thanks again for reading! God bless your weekend…..
