Lazy Posting

Ok, here is the latest. Sorry for not updating in forever, things here have been a little hectic lately. For me at least. Either way, lots of cool stuff has happened since the last update. Take for example yesterday. We, being the drama team, performed the Everything Skit (also known as the "Lifehouse skit") in both services at the McMurray Gospel Assembly and the team more or less ran the service last night at Fellowship Baptist Church. On Saturday we learned a little about the oil sand work at the Oil Sands Discovery Center. It was actually a pretty cool space, though a little on the small side. This way we should be able to understand people a little more when they talk about working on site.

Anyways, that is all I have to say for now. I'm going to get on myself about getting back into the rhythm of regular updating, so you should be seeing daily updates again. Here are some perspectives on the week from other team members to keep you sated for now.

- Mike

This week I was leading the soccer electives, but no one showed up. Later in the day thought I was able to convince enough people that it would be fun if they all came and played a game with me. We walked to the closest soccer field just down the road and had a great game of scrimmage. There were about 12 people there aged 10 - 23. It was just so awesome and exciting to see this random mix of people all having a great time running around and they respected and encouraged each other all the time. I don't know how often kids get together to play big games like that, but it seemed like everyone just loved having someone to play with.

I also talked to a girl who wants to quit smoking because she thinks its disgusting and misses her sense of smell. In the past she had managed to quit for about three weeks before starting again. She is cutting back gradually, but it will take a while to quit completely.

It has been awesome to see small differences in everyone we have been building relationships with. Whenever people hang out with us, they seem happy and enjoy just talking to us.

- Amanda