Saturday, June 24, 2017

CCCOG to Mexico final day - 2017

The last day brings about many feelings and while it may be easy to check out both physically and mentally the team made the best out of our time until the very end. The puppet team finished with a grand finale of two shows in one day! The construction team was able to get far on the wall they were working on building. Plus, the medical team saw every single kid from Welcome Home--that's 40 kids! 

Elmer was introduced to a sort of tradition of taking part in foot washing on the last night of a missions trip when he was in his youth. He carried this tradition to our team. We first started with the yarn of encouragement. One person starts with a ball of yarn and they get to pass it to someone and give them an encouragement, affirmation, or a thank you of some sort. Then the person who received the ball of yarn gets to pass it on until the whole circle is a zig zag mess of yarn representing memories and smiles. This was followed by foot washing and it was one of the most amazing things to watch! Our whole team came together as a family. It was so powerful to see sisters, parents and kids, and friends of old and new humbling themselves and washing each other's feet. We all love to get those warm fuzzies! This evening was full of them. There's no better way to end the trip. Thanks to everyone who made the trip possible and to all the people who went! 

God Bless