i got to spend a week in mexico with people and my family to help an orphanage. in the morning we would do activity's with the kids for about two hours. there were three stations sports, crafts ,and games. after that we did are jobs, like we did screens, making curtains, curtain rods to hang the curtains on. we made a patio we painted the roof and the walls we did electricity on the security lights. we made a door for the apartment the house parents lived in. we made a new sink we got rid of some old toys and sorted clothes.
Leading activities
Enjoying lunch
after that at around 4:00 or 4:30 we walked back to the hotel some of us would hop in the pool and then we would either go out on certain days or have market meals. one day we went down town to a mall and we could by stuff. i bought a bracelet a churro and some ice-cream and earrings. and we left there around four a clock on Wednesday night we had a party with a pinata. and after we had cake because it was my moms birthday. after we ate cake we did worship karen taught them a lesson then we prayed then we went back to the hotel.
on friday we always say by to the orphanage then go to the beach for 2:00 hours then we head back to the orphanage and on saturday we pack up and we hang out until the bus comes. we ride the bus to the airport then we take the plane back to utah!
oh yay! one more thing the trip felt very special to me because i never got to spend time in a orphanage with kids before and i learned that since the kids don't have families its very special to them that people come down to them an spend time with them. it means a lot of them. one of the cool things in mexico is that i met a girl named maria jose and esmerelda got along with me very fast.
At the beginning of April I was blessed to take a trip of 28 folks from CenterPoint Church down to Hogar de Amor Orphanage in Colima, Mexico. It was an amazing trip, all the more so because I got to serve alongside 3 of my very favorite people!
You can read all about the trip on our team blog, http://centerpointmexico.blogspot.com and check out the video below to see highlights from our blessed week!
It was a week that touched the hearts
of every member of the team as we contributed about 600 hours of labor to jobs around the orphanage and, most importantly, shared countless smiles and hugs!
In
addition, the CenterPoint team was grateful to bring a ton of donations to Hogar de Amor, including:
Over $7,300 in project supplies and cash donations
587 pairs of socks and underwear
151 tubes of toothpaste
201 toothbrushes
381 packs of crayons
121 coloring books
56 bath towels
79 washcloths
170 hand towels, kitchen towels, and dish rags
Wow!
Thanks again to everybody who was a part of this trip - those who
supported the trip financially, who prayed faithfully for the trip, who stayed in the U.S. and kept homes running
while the team was away, and who donated supplies for the kids of Hogar de
Amor. Your support means so much to us and to them.
I was racing at Brian Head for two days and I did slalom and GS. GS is big turns, slalom is little turns.
I am in Sundance ski team and ski team chose to come to Brian Head to race. I've been in ski team for two years. Ski team learns how to be really fast at slalom and GS.
We learn how to edge very well and we do a lot of black diamonds. Black diamonds are pretty steep but there's double black diamonds that are even harder. We do Marmot Gultch, which is a double black.
Something I like about ski team is I get to go skiing every week.
My sister is racing, too. She's on ski team, too.
I am the one above this picture. My sister is the picture I'm writing beside.
This is Saturday and one day we are doing GS and one day we are doing slalom and today we are doing GS.
This is after the race and we are waiting to see my sister going down the hill and I was racing my brother and I won because he crashed into my other brother. I have two brothers. They were on ski team before me, then I decided to go to ski team when I was old enough.
When they crashed both of their skis popped off and their poles went flying.
This is me, my mom and dad, and my sister on the hill. We were going down really fast and it was also a jump.
This is the tubing place that we went to and this is the tubing area. We went tubing for 90 minutes and we went really fast and those tubes with the red nets on it you couldn't hit hard or else you would not be able to tube.
My brother is standing on a magic carpet and when they got to the top he would have to jump off and he would wait for us and we would go down at the same time and race each other down the hill.
This is me and I was tubing down the hill with my family.
On day 2 of racing I was racing slalom and I got 8th place and it was the final YSL Race. YSL Race is Youth Ski League. And I got a medal for it.
Here's a video of my run:
This was my sister and she was racing, too. And she's on slalom, too.
This is my sister, too. She was going off the jump that I was talking about earlier and we went really fast down the jump.
This is me with my medal - my 8th place medal. I felt great about my medal and we waited there for just the medal. We waited like a hour to get it. And it was really worth it!
