So today was one of the more interesting days of the trip so far, for me at least. Woke up kinda late, grabbed a fairly tepid shower, dressed in my newly laundered and folded shirt(courtesy of Chris Deans) and went down for our daily, morning devotional. One of the things Joe has been encouraging us to do is for each member to give a brief version of their testimony, and so that's what I did today. It was actually one of the harder things I've done in a while because giving my testimony requires revisiting portions of my life that I'm not exactly proud of. But I guess that maybe me giving my testimony and talking about the things I've struggled with might be a blessing or an encouragement to someone in some way I may not be able to see, so I guess I'll just suck up my discomfort. Went to breakfast afterward, oh,I don't know why this is but everything down here just tastes kinda amazing, so needless to say, breakfast was mad good.
Breakfast at CC Managua
After breakfast we started on our work projects, I helped Joe out with fixing a bunch of appliances. I was actually kinda useless, Joe did all the work and I just held all of his equipment and stuff.....yeah. Whatever, as long as I'm doing something I'll be alright. We also had to smashed a bunch of old computer parts and stuff so that the drug addicts don't go rooting through the church's trash, find something they can salvage, sell it to someone who doesn't know any better and spend their profits to fuel their habits. So yeah, Sean was kinda amazing at smashing all the stuff, not that that surprised me...
Matt and Sean
For our afternoon outreach project, we selected two families from the church congregation and took them shopping for a new outfit, a new pair of shoes and stuff like that. the group split into two teams and each team accompanied one of the families. Ha ha so while the rest of the group went shopping with the families, Ben and I stayed behind and "watched" the van. The quotes are necessary because Ben decided to take an impromptu nap on the sidewalk at an outlet shopping center in a third world country....
The Mall
I literally saved his life 6 or 7 times. But it was really cool, it was a fun time, for the families and for the team. We basically went back to the church and hung out for the rest of the day. Sean and I went out back and pumped some ridiculously enormous amounts of masculine iron. Then we just chilled on the roof until dinner. the roof is actually the center for discussions of the incredible deep and stupidly immature, good place to chill. Went to dinner, Camille, in coordination with several others, decided to make me sweat a bit over a set of lost keys......thanks guys. Doug thinks he's hot stuff now cause he won the most insane game of Egyptian rat slap. Whatever, he needs something to feel good about,do to his extremely poor self-esteem. So yeah, that just about brings me to where I am now. really looking forward to finishing up a really awesome, eye-opening trip. Night' everybody :)
CC Managua Family
God Bless,
Matt Simeone
Matt, that was great and very entertaining! Sounds like you have a great team down there. Y'all will have to go again next year. :-> I've heard great things about it there and everyone always wants to go back.
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