What a great day!!

Today, the girls traveled to an orphanage and the guys helped a local church start to rebuild and stabilize their facility. Upon arrival at the orphanage the children had huge smiles and were so welcoming. They showed us around their home and the various things they do during the day. They loved the cameras and taking lots and lots of random pictures. We brought a craft of leather rings to do with them and they absolutely loved it! It was touching to see how happy and content they were with everything they had which wasn’t that much. We left them with smiles and lollipops and reassurance that we would return tomorrow. Later in the afternoon we started our VBS at the local church where the guys were working. We expected a “normal” VBS and not a lot of excitement due to the fact that no one here knew what VBS was. Boy were we wrong!! At the beginning about 20 children came early, we turned around and it started multiplying. There were then about 70 kids when we started the opening and by the end of the night there were 160 happy, excited children and that was with the gate closed! We were overwhelmed with joy and stress. The children loved the music even though it wasn’t in their language and by the end of the night ALL of them could recite the memory verse. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that a group of women from the church quickly put together a snack and hand squeezed juice for all 160 kids. We went with the mentality to serve them and in return felt they served us more. Overwhelmed and blessed at how kind and happy everyone was we are exhausted and excited for another day tomorrow with hopefully many more kids. Please pray that we don’t get too stressed and anxious about planning tomorrows evening VBS and we would put it all in God’s hands as he knows what’s best. A special shoutout to GPA, gram, paps, other gram, Uncle Bob/Dad, Brylan, Gav, and Isabella!! We are missing you guys like crazy and cannot wait to see you and hear about your (lonely) week! Love you all!
Lex and Aubs