Update!

I haven't blogged in a while so I'll try to catch y'all up over these past two weeks. The staff left us on our own last Tuesday. The night before we did skits to show how much they meant to us. My group sang "I'm not crying" by Flight of The Conchords. It's a really funny song, and we changed some of the words up for our situation. We sang it to our action group leader Steven because he was leaving to go back to Oklahoma by the end of the week. I sure will miss him. After we all did our skits, the staff left for the night. There are four students in charge now (Nick Baughman, Zach Williams, Laura Beth Price, and Brittany Sizemore). They each brought in a bowl of water and a rag to wash our feet with as Jesus did in John 13. It was so awesome to have our feet washed. As they washed our feet, they prayed for us and the work we had left to do here in Santa Cruz. It was really cool. The staff left the next day, and now we are running the project ourselves. Last Thursday I got to go to a San Francisco Giant's baseball game. It was really fun, but it was a really short game too (2 hours 14 minutes). We were there and back here in no time. Last Sunday we had a Tug of War outreach on the beach. We dug a pit, laid a tarp in it, and then filled it with water as the center of the tug of war area. We had a good time, and lots of people came to play. Many of us had the opportunity to share the KGP with people as well. It was a very successful outreach. Me and Hunter Young usually go to Santa Cruz Roasting Company once or twice a week to get into the word and hangout. Yesterday we were reading and this man from Venezuela came up and was asking lots of questions about what we believed. I was pretty confused at his questions because I didn't understand what he was saying at first so Hunter did most of the talking. I think the man was probably a Christian but his theology seemed somewhat skewed as he talked about grey interpretation/purgatory, but we all agreed that we needed Jesus Christ for eternal life. He was a very interesting man to listen to and very kind. We enjoyed our conversations with him for sure. Santa Cruz is such an open place to talk with people that literally people will come up to you and talk about God. This week we've been focusing on our upcoming outreach party which is tonight. We're having a Christmas in July party. We've invited our coworkers and friends we've made to come tonight so we will get a chance to share the Gospel with them. Please pray that it will be a successful outreach, as we've been praying and getting prepared all week. I'm really looking forward to these last few weeks here too (3 weeks from today). We've got 2 more weeks of work, and then our last week we will be going to Yosemite! I'm really excited to take everything back that I've learned to school as well. I've studied through Matthew, Mark, and I'm working on Luke right now. I've also read More Than A Carpenter, and I'm reading 2 or 3 other books right now too. God's taught me so much here, and I can't wait to outreach to others and share what I've learned with people back at school.