It's amazing how much can happen in 48 hours. I have officially decided to live and serve in the slums. Until the weekend I will be living with the community leader a little ways away until we can arrange a more long term place for me to sleep. My other team mate is Daniel, the guy on the team. I am excited to serve side by side with him in this community. The rest of the group also split into pairs of two. Elizabeth and Jacque will be serving at the local college campus UPD. Also, Rachel and Karla got the last minute opportunity to serve in a local community where prostitution has become a way of life for many of the girls (Don't worry safety is always first for Navs so they won't be in any danger).
On another note my luggage finally arrived, Praise God because I was starting to get a little rank :)
Yesterday was an amazing day for us. We got to just hang out as a community before we all leave today for our assignments. We ate A LOT of food, my team mate and I bonded over our mutual sarcasm, and we all got to know each other on a more personal level. We also got the exciting news that some of the other teams may join us in the slums on Saturdays to help with teaching the students at the communities school, which would be awesome because it would give us a task to work on together.
So quick outline of what my week will look like: Monday through Friday we will be helping with the bible studies that are already in place, and just living among the people and sharing life (1 Thess 2:8, Such an awesome opportunity) On Saturday, we will teach during the day, and then take part in the communities weekly "community night" (Which sounds like our version of a block party). Sunday's we will return to the Nav headquarters to shower (the community showers are buckets of water), sleep, rest, decompress from the week, and just spend time in fellowship with the rest of our team. Then bright and early on Monday we will head back to the slums and do it all over again. I don't think that I have been this excited to serve a community since ASP which is really exciting.
That is all that I have time for at the moment, but expect updates every Sunday when I have some free time, and a computer.
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