THE GROUPS FINALLY ARRIVED!!!

YouthWorks Day 28 / Programming Day 1 –

This day was a Sunday and it was AWESOME!  Our wonderful Area Director (Becky) arrived a while ago to help us finalize everything before the groups got here.  Then Sunday we went to Teefrans (which, if I haven’t mentioned this before it is an AMAZING panaderia [bakery] that is just down the street from the church that we are staying at) and had breakfast.  We got some delicious quesitos which are pastries that are to DIE for!  I will never find anything as delicious when I leave here.  Then we went to church and had an awesome time.  Then we did some last minute stuff around the site and then it was time to wait. 

I got put on arrival duty, which I LOVED!  Basically, what I was doing was sitting in a chair in front of the church (under some palm trees J) waiting for the groups to get there.  We have a big orange banner on the fence and when they got there I ran back to tell everybody that the first group was there and then had to run back out and greet them and give them all name tags!  It was AWESOME!  I loved being the first person that they saw.  Giving out name tags was great because I got to know their names pretty quickly (I am still working on some of them though, lol).  Then we got them all situated and had free time to just hang out and play games and junk.

Then the second group got there and we did it all over again!!  Then we had tacos for supper and our first Club (which is our evening worship service that I am in charge of and give the “talk” at).  It was a little shaky but overall it went pretty well.  All of the kids are awesome!  One group is a group of 9 seniors that have been together for 6 years and have gone on lots of trips and the other group is a group of 27 incoming Freshmen.  Needless to say, the dynamics of each group has been a little different!  It has been so awesome seeing the differences and getting to know everyone that has come!  I can’t wait to see what else happens during this week!  Such good groups!