Woah, first long travels...and snow!
Hello again,
Since I last posted:
We've experienced our first team snowfall. It was also my (Michelle's) first snowfall ever, and was quite exciting. As we were on our way back to the center, it began to snow, and about 2-3 inches of snow came down. I was able to make my first snow angel, and we had a small snowball fight.
We've also met two other team members families, Jaci and Colleen, over the thanksgiving time. We were able to spend time with Jaci's wonderful family and friends for a few days and had some awesome experiences with Praise and Worship. We spent some of Thanksgiving with Jaci's family, and had dinner over with Colleen's family. We then spent some more time with Colleen's family, and had many exciting conversations and fun scrabble games.
We then came American Falls, Idaho to put on two retreats, a youth group night for middle school, and a weekend for the high school. They were both very exciting retreats which both had more people than they orginally thought would come. It was amazing getting to see the small changes in people throughout the retreats, some chaperones came to us saying they were surprised certain retreatants were volunteering, but it was all though the grace of God and not through our own power. We also got to meet a former reacher, Father Justin. We had an awesome time getting to hang out with him and getting to know him. We spent some time going to some hot springs together, staying up late in the rectory playing monopoly, and having many great conversations, about old vans, new vans, and life in general. He is an amazing priest, and an amazing person and we were blessed to be able to spend time with him.
And last, but not least, we came to Idaho Falls to put on another high school weekend retreat, however this one was all day Saturday, and Sunday going to Mass at 5:30, and then the confirmation class afterwards which went to 8:30. It was an amazing retreat, and the people we have gotten to know here are great and amazing people that make lives as we are away from home much easier to handle. We got to go ice skating on Friday, and had a blast getting to know people, and then going and looking at Christmas lights afterwards. I have never seen such amazing Christmas, we saw one that was similar to this one, but better, and with more lights throughout the front of the house. There were literally people parked in front of the house to watch.
Next, we are going back to Yakima, and the center, and will be spending some time there, rejoining with the other teams, until Dec. 14, as we go off for our Christmas break. Thank you for all the love and support of everybody. Please contine to pray for us as we continue our mission.
God Bless,
The Our Lady of Lourdes Reach Team
Since I last posted:
We've experienced our first team snowfall. It was also my (Michelle's) first snowfall ever, and was quite exciting. As we were on our way back to the center, it began to snow, and about 2-3 inches of snow came down. I was able to make my first snow angel, and we had a small snowball fight.
We've also met two other team members families, Jaci and Colleen, over the thanksgiving time. We were able to spend time with Jaci's wonderful family and friends for a few days and had some awesome experiences with Praise and Worship. We spent some of Thanksgiving with Jaci's family, and had dinner over with Colleen's family. We then spent some more time with Colleen's family, and had many exciting conversations and fun scrabble games.
We then came American Falls, Idaho to put on two retreats, a youth group night for middle school, and a weekend for the high school. They were both very exciting retreats which both had more people than they orginally thought would come. It was amazing getting to see the small changes in people throughout the retreats, some chaperones came to us saying they were surprised certain retreatants were volunteering, but it was all though the grace of God and not through our own power. We also got to meet a former reacher, Father Justin. We had an awesome time getting to hang out with him and getting to know him. We spent some time going to some hot springs together, staying up late in the rectory playing monopoly, and having many great conversations, about old vans, new vans, and life in general. He is an amazing priest, and an amazing person and we were blessed to be able to spend time with him.
And last, but not least, we came to Idaho Falls to put on another high school weekend retreat, however this one was all day Saturday, and Sunday going to Mass at 5:30, and then the confirmation class afterwards which went to 8:30. It was an amazing retreat, and the people we have gotten to know here are great and amazing people that make lives as we are away from home much easier to handle. We got to go ice skating on Friday, and had a blast getting to know people, and then going and looking at Christmas lights afterwards. I have never seen such amazing Christmas, we saw one that was similar to this one, but better, and with more lights throughout the front of the house. There were literally people parked in front of the house to watch.
Next, we are going back to Yakima, and the center, and will be spending some time there, rejoining with the other teams, until Dec. 14, as we go off for our Christmas break. Thank you for all the love and support of everybody. Please contine to pray for us as we continue our mission.
God Bless,
The Our Lady of Lourdes Reach Team
posted by Our Lady of Lourdes at 8:42 PM
2 Comments:
Hey!!! Shout out to that crazy Lourdes team!!! :D Luv you guys!
Our Lady of Guadalupe :D
Hey guys, This is Kelleen from the IF retreat. It rocked having you guys here. The house you guys saw is less than a mile from mine. it has it's own radio station, and the show last for 14 minutes. It goes up every year. come up and see it again.
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