CHILDREN.

(Victoria speaking)

I got to play with children today!! I have missed those smiles and laughs. Don't get me wrong, I have loved being able to serve the college here this past week in the library, but as many of you know, I LOVE KIDS. Charlie would say I have a problem. It has gotten to the point where I kind of just stare at them out the window as we drive through the neighborhoods. However, today that changed :)

As we have already said, the language barrier has been difficult for us. Not today though! With kids, language doesn't matter. I played Dominoes, and UNO (sadly not spicy UNO), and puzzles without knowing half the stuff they were saying. We laughed a bunch and I tried my hardest to tell them things about myself and ask them questions. Eventually I just started asking things in Spanish and they understood! Lucky for me. I had little ones hugging me and hanging on me as I walked around the gym. There were about 50 kids there that are a part of a Kids Camp type thing that a ministry puts on. It has been wonderful hearing stories of how God has been changing lives with those kids and within the local community.

TOMORROW. We leave for the Amazon tomorrow! 6 hours from now actually. Charlie, Kenzy Parker, and I will be joining a team of students and staff from the school here and will be going to the Amazon to work with their partner ministry. They are running camps with the river communities and we will be helping out wherever they need it. Charlie and I were asked to share our testimony...that's always scary. So over thought and prayer we wrote them out so that Kenzy could prepare to translate for us. I don't know about C, but I know I am pretty scared for this trip. I know these areas are poorer that what we have seen so that is going to be hard, but other than that I don't know what to expect. Please pray for peace for Charlie, the team and I, as we go into these communities to share God's word with people who might not ever get another chance to hear it.

We get back the 3rd so expect a post after that!! Love and miss you all.

Love bunches, 

Victoria Starr

P.S. And what Charlie said about the pizza...it really is hard to eat it with a fork and knife. We are learning SO many things about the culture here! 

 Charlie helping out with jump rope!

 

Just too cute.

 The kids hearing a bible story from the teens in the group!

My new friend Julia