Well, I just yesterday got back from an amazing week-long missions trip to Marvell, Arkansas.

Being thrust back into my normal life is taking some getting used to.  Because the week before last, I was at church camp for a week.  So, I’ve been with the same people for two weeks, 24/7.  It was so strange this morning, waking up and not hearing my friends talking or smacking the alarm clock.

The organization we went with is called Youthworks.  It’s a great organization, they do incredible things.  We stayed in the old Marvell School.  It was great.  They even had air conditioning which was good because, let me say, it is very, very, VERY, hot down in the south.   The only annoying thing was the crickets.  There wasn’t an infestation or anything like that there were just a few really big speckled criket type things.  …Yuck.

Our leaders were amazing.  The Kunes.  And the week started out with a miracle.  7 days before the trip Mrs. Kune had gotten an X-ray on her head.  She had a tumor and had for awhile.  But when we reached Marvell on Sunday afternoon her husband rushed her to the hospital and left us with the Youthworks staff because they thought it was rupturing.  We, the missions team, prayed for her all day.  The Kunes came back later that night and her tumor was completely gone.  The doctors were even a little skeptical about her having one in the first place.  There just wasn’t even a sign of it at all!  Now, how amazing is that???

The first two days I and others worked at a kids club for the inner city children.  It was so much fun :)             Just running around with the little ones was a blessing.  On Tuesday, I had my hair done three times by the kids.  Needless to say, my scalp was a little sore.  But I wouldn’t trade it for the world, and I’d do it again.

Tuesday morning before the kids club, we went to a nursing home and I got the chance to talk to a wonderful lady about her childhood and her children.  About the farm she used to live on and about how she misses waking up in the morning to the sound of a rooster.

Wednesday and Thursday were work project days.  Wednesday, we scraped the paint off of the outside of the house for a woman.  It was hot work, but worth it for her smiles.  And on Thursday we painted it, which was so much fun.  I was almost literally covered from head to foot in white paint.   But in between running from wasps and ducking from flying paint the house was nearly finished by the end of the day.  It looks so gorgeous now.  :D

I met some amazing people there and I would love to go back and spend another week there or longer.

I have so much more to tell, but for now this is all.