Today I was moved to our Salvation Army site rather than our site at CIIPAP. I was really nervous at first because they originally asked for a Spanish speaker so that they could translate everything. I’m definitely not translator material yet. So the day started off kind of rough. But, then when I finally got my head out of my bum and just did it, it was awesome. I had a great time there and made some great friends with the kids! It even worked out that I didn’t need to do any translating, except for minor things when the kids would want to say something to one of the youth kids.
Today I had an interesting experience that I thought had a nice parallel in my life. We were having pizza for supper and we buy them from Sam’s Club. So, I offered to go pick up the 13 pizzas. We called ahead a bunch and told them that we would be there at 4:30. Well, I got there at 4:15 and waited in line for almost half an hour. Then I got to the front and told them what I was there to pick up and then I waited for another 45 minutes before actually getting the pizzas. I was watching them SLOWLY go through the pizza oven, it was one of those on a conveyor belt type thing. So as they were ever so slowly coming through and taking so long I took the time to pray and reflect because as staff we don’t get quite as much time to do that as you would think. So I was sitting there praying and I realized that sometimes I am like the pizzas in the over and God is sitting in the lobby waiting for me to get done. I’m assuming that he is a little more patient than I am though, lol. It seems like while I am taking my happy time getting ready, or following his plan or doing what he has asked me to do, he is sitting there waiting for me. Sometimes I take a while to get done, like the pizza.
Tonight, we ate pizza and then went to the plaza. We heard about the history of Arecibo and a bit about Puerto Rico as well! Julio, one of our friends from the community (who also runs Sicomoro) was the person who spoke for us. It was great. They are selling shirts to help to raise money for their organization and the kids almost bought them completely out!! It was so awesome! They have such a good cause too J I can’t wait to buy some things to support them :).
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