Tuesday was our first full day at the orphanage. The day’’s activities were primarily
indoors. The orphanage staff lesson was
about positive emotions and we spent the morning doing various activities to
express our positive emotions. Each
group made a poster about love and talked about how love is that greatest of
emotions and that it is also the longest lasting. Sometimes love is only seen over the long
run. We walked the halls making others
happy by complimenting them. We encouraged
others by writing them nice notes. We
had fun by jumping around in an inflatable bounce house. We also were allowed to relax in a room set
aside with tools for relaxation and energizing.
Some use a foot massage machine; others lay on a bean bag chair that was
like a giant headphone. I was privileged
to lie on my back on a large water bed to feel the mild movement of water on my
sore back for 15 minutes with soft music playing.
We almost finished watching The lion, The Witch and the
Wardrobe and had our lesson about Lucy and honesty as well as how it hurts when
people are not honest with us. One tool
we used was to ask kid and adults to write down ways people make us not trust them. Then we sent up a jenga tower and each time a
card was read, someone removed a piece from the tower. Finally the tower fell. Sometimes people can do a few things that
show us mistrust, but we can restore trust.
Sometimes when a person continues to show a lack of trust, the tower
falls, and it has to be completely rebuilt.
But is it never the same tower.
We are privileged to have been tasked with painting new
lines on the new asphalt for the basketball court. That project began today and the court will
look great. Later in the week, when it
is finished we will have a small basketball tournament in celebration. This is a great gift to the orphanage, not
just for basketball players, but for any activity that requires a large paved
surface. It is the only substantial large
paved surface on the property.
We began making t-shirts and
playing ultimate Frisbee and soccer.
It seems as if there are more soccer players here this year, so perhaps
we’ll get a good game going on Wednesday.
Today was also spa day and Julie had the privilege of
painting the Executive Director’s nail.
The Executive Director said, “I never have the opportunity to have my
nails done.” What a blessing for Julie.
Pray for the team as we seem to be passing a cold around to one another.
The mosquitoes are big, but God is bigger.
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