Feb 6

Saturday I went fishing again with two of the staff that work at CCD. It was good to be out there fishing, however, I don’t think I’ve ever fished for such a long time before. We arrived at 8 in the morning and didn’t leave till after 6 at night. We only caught 3 fish (2 of them were looking small) but didn’t catch the first one until 3:30. I caught that one and it was quite a good size. The day seemed a lot more fun after that. Saturday night we had all the volunteers here at the house for some games. Sunday morning me and Paul took two of the guys from the ward to church and then to eat at KFC afterwards. They seemed to enjoy it lots and loved being at church. Sen can speak much, but when I asked him what his favorite food was he was pretty quick to yell out K F C! It was great to be able to take them. Paul has been a great blessing to have here. I think that just the presence of another guy around is a welcome change, plus he has a good sense of British humor and English is his first language. He really likes working with the guys and has been a good source of motivation coming into the last month or so here. We’re going to try taking the guys out more often to church and other places. It helps having another guy around to help with all that here.
Allison has also been a great blessing since she’s been here. All the staff and the volunteers say that she’s doing a great job and they all notice the great love she has for the children in the wards. That’s been great because it’s the kind of love that rubs off on people. Please be praying for us and the government staff that will be here long after we leave that we won’t grow weary of loving these guys and taking care of them!

Oh yeah, the wrestling was pretty fun. It turned out to be American wrestling. The Smack Down Live tour. The one guy that all the kids knew was sick with pnemonia and the only other wrestler I knew was the Undertaker. Still it was great to take the kids to, they all seemed to love it!