Sunday, September 9, 2007

This journal is going to be very brief, as I did not do very much today at all. I was up for most of the night with a pounding headache and a very unsettled stomach, I was pretty unresponsive today. Once I was up and around I noticed that the clock on my phone was wrong and I had gotten up 80 minutes early, which did not thrill me at all. My first junior church meeting was today and I wasn’t really all that nervous, which is good because I did not feel very good. I got my bible, notebook, and the toys that I brought down for the children and went to the chapel. When I got there I was pleased to see that some of the older kids took it upon themselves to lead singing and talk with the younger ones until we started. This was good because Roland and I had some other things to take care of first. When it was finally my turn I started out by giving them my ideas for the program and what I hoped they would bring to it and get out of it. I then asked them what they would want to learn about and to my surprise got my first four lessons chosen for me, Noah, Jonah, David, and Joseph. Once we were all done explaining and getting on the same page I read them a couple of verses on respect and obedience. I am going to use those verses of core themes for the program. After about 35 minutes I gave out the toys and bracelets I had for them. It was really like Christmas, for such simple things. After that, they got to get new tennis shoes for school, which was a very sad and happy time for them. Sad because some kids did not get new shoes because they had shoes already, which is unfortunate but they don’t get 150 pairs of shoes in. I then went up to my room to sleep until the power went off, and came to find that it does not go off on Sunday. After lunch Roland and I spent 3 hours in my room chatting about various things while he was emailing some people and catching up on the news. About an hour later, I came out of hiding, still with a headache, and accompanied Roland for dinner. I did not eat anything though, but still hung out while he ate. Since I did not have “toys” for the older kids, and they are being a big help with discipline and with junior church, I decided to buy them cell phone cards so they could call people. A 15 minute phone card is only 1.50 so I was ok with that. After I gave those out I was just about spent for the day so I called it a night. Now I am going to get to bed early because I am getting up to help send the kids off to school. Peace