Laundry and Journaling...

Tonight I'm sitting here in the living room of my host home and everyone is asleep. I'm waiting on some laundry to get done drying so I thought I would give you a little update. While I've been sitting here I've been journaling and thinking about how God has been working in those unnoticeable ways... until you sit back and really think about things.
God is so amazing and I'm learning that he works in and through us when we aren't really paying attention. The team has gotten to spend a lot of time with the youth group these past few days. We have gotten to know them all pretty good and they have been able to ask us anything. We have really just considered what we were doing this week as just "hanging out" not really doing much it seems like, however, we have had more than one adult come and tell us that we have really made an impact on these kids. They apparently have gone home and told their parents that they would really like serving God in a way like this during their college experience. Of course we have told them about the other opportunities that they have to go and serve the Lord through the Baptist State Convention and other organizations. They seem excited and really are genuinely interested in one day becoming missionaries themselves. It is so cool to think that God could be using us to help someone answer a call that he has given them for their life! I feel like the youth of this church have really bonded with Mike and Andrew this week, after all it is a youth group of boys, however, I can not speak for them.
Today we got to do "mission and fishin" with the youth. We helped them with a mission project at a nearby camp and then we got to go fishing with them. This was a great opportunity to talk to the youth and let them teach us a few things. I think sometimes we forget how smart some young people are and we should never miss a teachable moment to learn... whether it be us teaching them or them teaching us.
We have not gotten to the boy that I spoke of in the post before. He has had baseball during this week, however I believe we will get to see him tomorrow. Tomorrow is our last day in Laurinburg. It is crazy to think about how much time has already passed! Oh... and we "broke" our first kid this week. We were playing dodge ball with the youth and he broke his thumb. He thought he had just jammed it and kept playing... he even went and played a baseball game after he left the church! I guess I just don't understand boys and how they get hurt without even knowing it. Haha!
We lead two worship services this week and both of them went really well. We got a chance to worship God by leading others in worship, while we worshiped. Another funny moment. We ended our last service on Wednesday night and a man near the front stood up and said he would like to say something. He said "I have lived in Lexington for 23 years and have never seen anyone as pretty as her" (speaking of Kristen). It was hilarious... it has been the joke of the week!
Well now I'm starting to ramble... I hope everyone is doing well and knows that we are thinking about you and praying for you! If you would like to pray for the InVision team and our ministry please pray for the youth of Laurinburg, that they would be open to whatever God calls them to do, whether it be now or in the future. Please pray for the team as we begin to pack up and get on the road again to another place. Pray that God would be preparing the hearts of the people we will encounter and say good-bye to. Also pray for our team to always represent the love of Christ. I praise God for the bonds that have been created between the youth and our team and between the team members.