Caleb & Della: 8/10/14: Day 161: Camp

I arrived at Hector’s house at 7:00 to take one of the Gainesvillians to meet Hector’s mom in Sonsonate. One from the group had to arrive a day late so Hector’s mom went on to the airport to get her and I went back to Ataco to join everyone else in the church. The sermon was by a Gainesvillian named Westin who is a firefighter with lots of good stories. At 11:30 Lucky, Della, and I met the owner at a house to consider it for rent. It had a big backyard but nothing going for it other than that except for the beautiful spider (See picture) that Lucky said would have to go. I went back home and packed and at 1:00 I got on the bus and left for the camp. It was about an hour drive to a gated park that was well kept with plants and such. We had 60 teens and half of them were not Christians. We started the camp by dividing in to random teams evenly split boys and girls. For my group, I had; two members from Gainesville, one from Shucutitan that was with the Ataco church and one that was not, Ava (Wendi’s niece), and more, about ten people in total. Our first game was to memorize the names, ages, and favorite pet and then get quizzed. Thankfully I didn’t miss any but somehow we didn’t win. After that we had to select 5 members of our group to make a human statue. They came up with the idea to pose as a bicycle. Then we were given materials and went to make a flag. Our team color was yellow so we chose to go with Revelation 5:5, the Lion of Judah. Then everyone setup camp and I got the perfect spot for my hammock, under a porch roof between two pillars with hooks intended for hammocks. I knew it was going to rain so I was very happy with this spot. We ate dinner at 6:00 and then had a bible study. The lecture posed three questions that we divided into our teams to answer amongst ourselves. I know a little Spanish now and Ava knows a little English so between us we had to make do for the interpretation. This was a huge stretch for my Spanish skills. After we finished everyone went back to the field to play a game called Dragon. In this game each team linked arms and one had a ribbon attached while the other end held a flashlight. The rules were that the only the head of a dragon could take the tail off another and the goal was to be the last with a tail. Our dragon kept breaking apart but we played till we were exhausted. I got to bed at 9:30. It poured rain and people talked all night.