Today is our last day in the village. Wow...I can't even believe this. It seems like yesterday we just got here! And now we are talking about finishing things up! It's unreal how fast the time has flown since the day we got here to begin our work. It is going to be extremely difficult to have to say goodbye to these families and children. I would love to stay longer and just bring God's love to these people, however I'm starting to feel ready to go home. I'm not feeling the greatest today...which I think is just a combination of being exhausted and so super hot. I'm ready to be clean and comfortable again as well. :) Let's just say I'm ready to be done with Indian food as well. :) It's not horrible, but I'm definitely ready to have some Chipotle again. :)
Today we get to sort through all of the Croc shoes, the backpacks for the children, and all the clothes that we brought down to give to them. After we sorted everything out into specific families, we got to walk around the village and hand everything out to the families. The joy and smiles on their faces just melted my heart. We got to take pictures of them wearing their new crocs and everything. Within 5 minutes of giving them all their new items, some of the children ran up to us, wearing their new clothes and their shoes. It was the most cutest thing ever!
{one word...adorable. :)}
{baby girl...black dots are meant to keep the devil out}
{children in village waiting for their gifts...}
{more children in village}
{most adorable little boy ever...VJ}
{Gwendema, Monjou, Devani}
That evening we had our final concert in the village that we were staying in. It was a great concert and you could tell all of the village people loved it! After the concert, they called all the GCC mission team members up to the stage so that the people in the village could thank us for coming and helping them. They prayed for us for safe travels home and just thanked us over and over for doing what we did that week. After they did that, individual people from the village came up and hugged us so tightly and prayed for us. It brought me to tears...these people were thanking us that we came to help them, when really we should be thanking them for showing us how to love deeper and have as strong of a faith as they do...
{the arts team during their concert}
After the concert, we went back to the village for our last dinner there. What we did not expect was that our last dinner was going to be RAT. Yes, rat was on the menu for dinner. They showed us the rats before they covered them in seasoning and threw them on the fire to cook. They were full rats...eyes and everything. SO gross! After they were done cooking, they gave each of us a piece to try. It was so super spicy and hot...and had the texture of chicken. :) I just had to put it in my mind that I was eating chicken...otherwise it could have turned out way worse. :)
{rat before cooked...:)}
{rat with spices...cooking over an open fire...mmm!}
{going for the plunge and seeing how good rat is!}
{yeah...not the best tasting thing ever...glad I did it though}
I'm so ready to go to sleep...that was an experience I will never forget. :)
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