Yesterday from the Eyes of a Student

Well today was awesome! I started off the day going on a 3 mile run on the beach with Charlie. Then we went to breakfast. The food is awesome here! That’s coming from a picky eater. Then we headed off to the fishing village. Today was really fun, first we got showed how to play soccer pretty much. The kids are amazing at soccer and all laugh at us for how bad we are. It was really cool seeing the kids start to understand the language barrier and laugh and smile all day. Then we decide to show them an American game that we are actually good at. We played Ultimate Frisbee and they surprisingly picked it up really easily and we had alot of fun! In the afternoon we played capture the flag and soccer. Through out the day we had small group time and it was so awesome to see how God worked through us and through the translators. We left the fishing village a little early today so that we could get back to the hotel have a little time to relax, get changed, eat dinner and then head back to the fishing village to go to church. When we were pulling up to the hotel we noticed something on the tops of the cars in front of us and sure enough and finally most of our luggage was right there pulling up to the hotel as we were. We all celebrated and it was awesome to finally have some clean clothes after wearing the same stuff 4 days in a row. We all went to the beach and went body surfing and just kind of hung out and then we went for a swim in the pool. After having a little fun we all got ready and put our CLEAN clothes on and headed to church! We all sat down outside where the service was going to be held and sat with some of the kids in our groups from earlier in the day. The service began and it was a little bit different but only because we didn’t know the words they were singing and it was hard to sing the English words to the same tune. Then David Holland went up to the front as the worship leader called him up, and we sang “God of the city” and we would sing a verse in English and then they would sing it in Portuguese and it was truly amazing to see how god was right there and that we were all worshiping him the same and there is no language barrier with him. This was probably one of the coolest things I have ever experienced. Then David preached the sermon to the church and did such an awesome job! It was awesome to see how he would speak and the translator would interpret what he was saying and tell the church and we would all know what he was saying and preaching to us even though we can not talk to the Brazilians face to face, but through this everyone was hearing the same amazing message. Church tonight was an awesome experience and not even expressible with words. We got back to the hotel late tonight so we just hung out for about an hour and then are all headed to bed now. Well it’s late here so i better hit the rack. We will see y’all soon!

-James Floyd
Senior, Paschal High School