One Week to Go

Apache, Oklahoma VBS

My best friend for the week!

Storm Damage

Tomorrow marks the last week of internship. We have quite the grand way to finish it off also, with a canoe trip! It is work as well though, since we are scouting out the area for the Fall DTS. it's also nice that we get this time to just hang out and enjoy the beautiful outdoors of Arkansas. God has given us an awesome landscape to enjoy and the opportunity to learn new skills and sharpen already known ones.

I'll let you in on what we have been doing for the past month:
Apache Oklahoma!!!! We traveled four hours West to a small Indian town to help with yard work and run a VBS for the local children. The journey was rocky at first due to our vehicle needing new tires but God provided a mechanic that had the availability almost immediately and we were able to make it in time for dinner.


Our mornings consisted of visiting individuals in the Apache/Anadarko area and doing yard work. In Apache we clipped trees, mowed lawns, planted flowers, and organised rooms. It was exhausting but very fun work. We definitely brought our senses of humour to the job site! Half an hour away in Anadarko we cleared roughly a ton of shingles from the yard of a family whose house had been severely affected by a storm. It was so..cool to bless them! Their children were adorable.

In the evenings we ventured even further west of Apache and ran a Vacation Bible School in a quaint little church for 15-26 children. The theme was Courageous Kids and featured people from the Old Testament who did courageous acts as young people. I loved seeing the faces of the children every day and how much they enjoyed doing the activities (like putting the eyes on the furniture/walls for the lion's eyes for Daniel in the Lions' den). By the end of the week we were all sad to say 'goodbye' to these beautiful children of God who had, in such a short time, touched our hearts.

Last week was research project time! I spent the first half of the week making a 'video' via PowerPoint to illustrate the book Tortured For Christ by Richard Wurmbrand. The latter half was researching Russia and writing a paper on it and why Russia needs missionaries. I found so many interesting facts and it furthered my desire to go there and work. That's not something I see in the near future, but it is in the future at some point.

And now...this last week is slightly bittersweet. But, that is how things are when something ends...and something new begins!

Thanks for reading ;)