..."you missed a spot!"

06.27.2012 It's Wednesday and it's been a great day! I think we are wearing down...between the long hours, heat, and the sun...it's exhausting! But it's definitely fun work!! This morning I started my morning with devotions and read about how we are refreshed by God throughout our daily lives and how can we be refreshing to others? I love the word refresh! It reminds me of when I've run 5 or 6 miles and then I down some water...that's refreshing! Or when you've worked in the sewer muck on a mission trip and then go take a cold shower...that's refreshing! It's a great, positive word that is even more magnified when it has to do with God refreshing us.  After finishing, I headed downstairs and met up with Janel who handed me a bag of tiramisu cookies and a sweet, encouraging card....that's refreshing!! How easy it is to refresh someone else by a nice, kind word...a smile...a gift...or a hug! So here's my question to you....who are you refreshing today? How is God refreshing you so you can refresh others? After breakfast we headed to the church and began working. We all split up...a few on the stage painting, some in the sanctuary painting, Deena on the roof painting, Janel and I painting the lettering on the walls, etc. It was a long day of painting! It was a successful day...a lot was completed and the morale was positive! Edwin and Stephen Sickel (w&w coordinator) stopped by today so we chatted with them a bit. Tonight we had supper...beans, rice, some kind of meat (veggies for me!), and the pastor caught some jumbo shrimp that they made for the team. They even gave us ice cream!! Diane brought the devotions tonight. Now I'm sitting here in our room. I just cleaned the nasty, sweaty grime off of me and now as I type I'm being serenaded by my cousin's singing. She likes to sing as she gets ready and she has a beautiful voice so I'm all about it! It's very uplifting! In a bit we are meeting together to bag up the rest of the candy, toys, and salvation bracelets for Saturday. Saturday we get the experience of traveling by bus and boat to a Kuna Indian village to spend the day with them. We are super excited for this trip, well, except for the lack of bathrooms, but we'll make do!  Please continue to pray for our group! Again, because God is such an amazing God he has blessed us with more money they we could've imagined and we have been able to do so much more than anticipated! I can't wait to compare the original list of what was expected to get done, to what has now been accomplished! I give God all the praise...this happens every year! Every year I sweat about money, and every year God multiplies it to further His kingdom! We have really enjoyed all the local church people who have helped along the way this past week....from making our meals to helping us work....it's been great! We have especially enjoyed some of the kids that come by everyday after school just to hang out with us....I think of Jeremy, Lia, Abby...such sweet kids that make us laugh and help us get through the sweat and heat! I can't believe that tomorrow will be a week since we've flown here. From the first day being a bit rocky in the travel to now, it's been AMAZING!!!! God has been faithful and for that I'm thankful!  Oh and....I got momochinos!!!!! That is totally spelled wrong, but those that have been on the trip may have remembered the spiky fruit!! YUM!!! :-)