Brickyard Dog-Piles

Hola from Chihuahua! This is your best friend Caleb!


Wow, what a week! Hard work is our team slogan now. This expiriance has been amazing so far to me, God hasrichly blessed me with our accomplishments...


So today started off as the usual morning schedual, but our devotions threw us a curve ball, in my eyes. Josh had us read a passage about forgivness, and challenged us to go out, and forgive someone who has wronged you. This challenge was a interesting one because we had to basically wait for someone to wrong us, so that we could dish outforgivness. This is especially hard when you are working and living with such an influential and edifying team. Allin all, it all worked out, and Josh told us that no matter what, when you are eternally forgiven, you must live inforgivness.


As the day progressed, everything was going as normal, but there was a little scare twords the end of the day.Chico was working hard, as usual, when from up above, a falling 8 pound C-Clamp came down and hit him in the back of the head from 10 feet up. This did not feel good, and there were a couple of quotes from Chico stateing, "I just feel a little dizzy." Of corse, this was not a very happy time for the team, or Chico. A standard check-up from Mrs. Rigel came back negitive for major injuries. Nevertheless, Chico is up, and around. He is still in pain though, so keep him in your prayers...


After a delicious lunch from the Magicion in the Kitchen herself (Mrs. Rigel), we got ready for the Brickyard.My first day at the Brickyard was a very uneasy day, that is, until I made a couple friends, so coming back today was very exciting. These kids kept coming to me and asking me to throw them up in the air, or spin them around. This is a very tireing prossess, but I end up forcing myself to keep playing like a 5 year old anyway. It is SO AMAZING that even though I only speak a little bit of spanish, they can understand me, and vise-versa. Apperantly, the kids have made it a tradition to find me, surround me, and tickle me until I fall over, and dog-pile me into the dirt. All I can do is laugh and roll around and try to ward off the kids, but I have not been succesful in my tryings ;). Everytime we leave, I'll admit, I get a little choked up when I have to leave. I know I will see them again soon, but theres nothing that will remove the sad feeling I get when I leave those kids.


After the Brickyard, we decided that we'd go into town for dinner. This was a crazyyy time, because Monte took us to a place in a mall area that makes Gorditas. Gorditas are like round tortillas that are cut open, and stuff put inside. This was a first for me, especially because I had a cactus Gordita. I really honestly couldn't tell if I liked it, but it was a great adventure to explore new flavors of the world.


God has been teaching me so much on this trip. But the one huge noteable thing this is the power of prayer. We had a devotion a couple days ago tited "Stop and Pray." This was very encouraging to me because everytime Ihave prayed, I feel like God is listening, and acting. I mean, look where we are now, no flight problems, a few minor injuries (But we immidiatly prayed for, and got better really quick). The next thing God has been teaching me, is my reliance on Him. There have been some times on this trip where I just turned all of my problems over to Him, and He has taken care of them in the best way possible.


Prayer Requests:
Chico - That his head would stop hurting, and that he would be restored to full heath as quickly as possible.
Ann - Due to a prexisting car accident, her back has not been cooperating with her, pray that healing will come to her.
Safty - That God would continue to keep us safe while working, and when we go into town tomorrow.

Thank you all so much for your prayers! I hope this has been a good blog to read...
Stay classy Orlando...
-Caleb


P.S. I love you Mom and Dad