Mighty Morphin Flippin Flamingos!

So, I just realized that I may have given the team´s name incorrectly on my last post. In saying that, take note, we are the Mighty Morphin Flipping Flamingos. Dont ask why, because I dont know either, other than that the name sounds epic indeed. lol.
I am not entirely sure where I left off so Ill just jump into the amazing events of yesterday and today. Yesterday we went up into the mountains in San Pedro and did a VBS for the children in the village. Although it was chaos, I think we have all agreed that God shows us beauty in chaos. The children were very happy to hang out with us and we loved loving on them. We ended the day with an awesome game of soccer(fútbal)with them. The crazy thing was that we were so high up into the mountains that we were actually playing the game in the mountain clouds. Amazing to say the least.
Today started out with a great breakfast and a great devotion time with Pastor Carlos where we discussed being a living sacrifice in Christ Jesus. We then took a short hike up the road from the church and set up sports camp with the local school. Soccer is quickly becoming an awesome sport in my eyes. During our game, the music class of the school came out into the courtyard to practice drum beats. This so happened to be at the exact moment of an intense soccer shootout. Quite epic I must say. Some of the little girls found it hilarious to paint all the guys fingernails, so i am currently typing with electric purple cuticles. Needless to say the energy of the day was filled with love, and it was a beautiful thing.
So as far as personal things from our team, we have a couple great stories. Chris on the first day here decided to go play with some children on one of the broken down walls outside of the church. The wall collapsed on him pinning him down to the ground and giving him some wicked scrapes. He is perfectly fine and i think he´s wearing the ufc fighter look quite well. Jonathan stayed back in San Juan with a couple other leaders to help equip some of the local adults with skills for VBS classes. There has been alot of great stories shared and great people who are coming with open hearts yearning to be poured into. Gods presence is very evident in this town! We all agree that the Lord is pushing us and stretching us in our faith´s and its an amazing time of growth in each one of our spiritual journies. Also the food is flippin awesome! Shout out to the cooks for sure!

Prayer requests for this trip...
For Tony(from impacto missions) His father is going through surgery. I dont know the details but please pray that he is safe.

For Manuel(bus driver) He was sick and out of work for about a month, so he is afraid that his children might not be able to stay in school because of the costs. Please pray that the Lord will just bless him and his family and that his trials will strengthen his faith in Christ.

For our team, that God would keep showing us new things on this endeavor and that his love will be evident in us and through our actions.

LOVE YOU ALL AND MISS YOU!!

-Garin H.