Rodeo Roundup! Yeehaw!

WOW!!! So today was the first day of EBV (Escuela Biblica Vacacional) (aka... VBS!!!)
So far, it has been awesome! The entire theme is Avalanche Ranch, everythin is cowboy and western style. All of the leaders and team members have to wear cowboy hats. We took the drums and everything from the front of the church and decorated it to look like a scene from a western movie. Ricky and some guys built a fence to put at the front of the church. It´s really cool. I have been working hard all week getting all of the songs ready for EBV. I am the one leading the songs. We do all of it to a CD and there is really no singing involved. THe thing is the handmotions. One song is a line dance almost the whole song. Lezlie (Texas Girl!!!) helped us out with that. IT is a blast. I am a troop leader. I lead the eight year olds. I think we have about sixty eight year olds. Fifty or sixty. We rented a bus to pick up the kids from Huambi. When we came, we had about 35 kids, when we left, we carried about 50 kids back to Huambi. The reason is that we accidently missed picking up a group of kids and they had to come in taxi. It was a blast. All the leaders have whistles and cowboy hats and handkercheifs. It is so fun. But seriously though, my whole body is SO tired. Even the soles of my feet hurt. We were at the church all day yesterday getting everything ready. Yesterday I rode in the back of a pickup all over Sucúa helping invite kids to EBV. We had clowns and a speaker sysytem playing a commercial for it. It was fun, we also got to throw candy to the kids. We´re expecting to see over 600 kids by the end of the week. Each day we´re expecting more. It´s pretty exciting. Also this week I ran into an american girl at a restaurant. It was fun to meet her and her friend. We´re going to try and hang out sometime if there´s time. She is volunteering in a neighboring town.
I´ve been having a lot of fun with everyone here. Whitney keeps me laughing all of the time. It´s great to have somebody who is so crazy to lighten the attitude sometimes. :) I´m gonna miss her when she has to leave. We went shopping the other day and bought some shirts and stuff to wear to church. By the way. The team is gearing up to head into the interior next week. We originally were going to go by boat but plans have changed and now we´re going to a different place. So we´re going in little ittybity airplanes now. It is going to be SOOO cool. there can´t be over 50 pounds of weight per person and we have to bring in extra stuff too. So it´s going to be exciting. We´ll be there five or six days. I am verrry excited about it. I am SO exhausted right now. But it´s been a great day. Kids are so much fun to work with.

PRAY FOR:
Children´s Church in Huambi
The trip into the interior of the Jungle
EBV to go smoothly
That I would have some times this week to be alone and to pray