Lord make my hands calloused and my eyes open. Callous my hands so that I have the strength to till the land and open my eyes so I can see the fruit that lay ahead of me. Today the Lord has moved my heart to examine the fruit in my life. The fruit that has been, that is and that is to come. Today we discussed the meaning of bearing fruit and how you can see it in your life, whether to see it as spiritual or physical fruit and the treasures it collects. The fruit we bare may be sweet or tart, if we let our vine go with no care of pruning we will still bear fruit but we will bear fruit but it will be tart and unsatisfactory, so we must allow the Lord to prune away within his will. The bible study had me in question where the fruit in my life is and rather than dwell on this question I cry out to my Father to callous my hands and open my eyes.
The day was a pretty chill day. We beached it and just spent quality time with the boys. We met a new girl Sarah that speaks perfect English. She was so nice and it sounds like she wants to do the internship. It was the first person we/I got to talk to that was super open to any topic and I didn’t have to watch what I was saying, it was a refreshing release to relax. Catarina was raving about this thing called Fresca all day, we al thought she was talking about soda but we came to find out it’s more like a peanut cluster sandwich with a squished waffle as the bread. It was a nice little snack pack in the middle of the day. After a good few hours on the beach, while Sam fixed some of their surfboards - it was time to cruise and get some food. I felt like this was the first day that the boys really started to open up and want to talk more with us girls than just a hello. On our way to dinner the boys picked us all up at Fathalla (the grocery store) and off to town it was. We walked into this place called VIP and Gano wanted us to try liver so bad, luckily it was over ruled and we were off to Koshari. Not the best choice in meal but anything sounded better than liver at that point. So a family style dinner at the resteranut and more fun to be had. Gano ended up paying for all of us, which we were stoked on but at the same time not stoked on. It was super hard to let him be that hospitable but if you push it too hard it becomes disrespectful, so we had to let it slide. Koshari family dinner was super fun and I got to know Faris and Ahamad a little bit more. Faris is so adorable, he and I play like brother and sister. They took us for tea and coffee after dinner at this place down a sketch road. Most of the good tea houses are always down some crazy side road. We stayed here for a few hours and it was good fun. We sang, danced, drank tea and coffee and just lived life with the local boys. After tea it was back to the house to pack the bags again. We packed goody bags for all of the kids for our adventure day. We are going to put on basically a surf adventure day, the waves are still flat so we can’t put on a competition but we will have paddle wars, teachings, and games. I’m super stoked to put on some fun for the kids, they love competition and it should be fun to see how they soak in the day with us down at the beach.
I guess in years past they have stayed at a five star hotel while in Alex that is twenty minutes from the beach or so and this year well we are far from that. But to be honest I think I like this better. We get to know the kids so much more and spend a choke amount at the beach with them, cruising the town every night with them and eating over at their houses. It’s been a blessing to be put in a nasty beach flat that is infested with bugs and filth. Honestly. Even though some accommodations would be nice I wouldn’t trade it for the opportunity to really get to know these boys and spend more time living life with them.
The team is still all pretty sick. Some of us are getting better as some of us are getting worse. It’s near impossible not to share sickness so let’s just pray that it stops at a cold. My bites are getting better, not at itchy but all of the bumps are still there and itch on and off. Sam is feeling a lot better, it was just car sickness - nothing more. Robert is rocking the team leadership and today with the surf clinic thing my prayers are that things go smoothly and to God’s plan (planning here with the locals can be a frustrating thing). Viktor is hitting it off with some of the local boys and we are all praying there is a chance to dive deeper in conversation with one of them. Us girls are praying to have divine appointments with other woman and Nancy was a tangible example of that prayer. Tim has a little girl Norah that is a ripper and is so adorable and I would love to have the chance to get to know her and break barriers with this hard ball. We leave Agomi on Monday and that marks our adventure into Jordan. Keep us in your prayer for that adventure for it will be long and grueling (so I’ve heard). My belly is holding strong on this trip which is an answer to prayer but my body is having other ideas. I pray God puts his healing hand on me and I feel 100% before we leave for Jordan. I know God has a plan for everything and I pray his plan is to get me up to par soon.
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