After helping the kids do hair in the morning. We had morning exercises. Followed by
Breakfast and Bible Lesson. Today's bible lesson was on building a godly self image. After which we went to the sea. The water was quite nice. But we forgot to bring a lot of toys down for the beach, so the kids looked for things to do. It wasn't long before they had
caps of bottles (which I can only assume was garbage) with water in them, and weeds as their paint brushes, as they started sand tattoos. I had planed to do sand tattoos today, but didn't have the time to set it up and tell them, yet they came up with it on their own.
In the afternoon we did Interest Groups about how God Sees us. Interest Groups are where the kids get to choose what they want to do. Their choices were, "God Sees us as beautiful and perfect" - AKA Hair and Manicures; "God Sees us as Champions" - AKA Volleyball, Football(Soccer), and Basketball; "God Sees us as Friend" - AKA Friendship Bracelets; and "God Sees us as a reason to rejoice" - AKA Freeze Dance. The kids enjoyed each of these stations very much. Many girls ran around beaming with delight, because they got to try wearing make-up. Many others where so proud of the medals we gave them for being Champions. These of course were glittered card-stock, with words on them like great team work, or whatever they did well at. Our goal was to get every kid at those stations a medal.
In the evening we made Bible book marks. They were made with the salvation colors (Black - Sin; Red - Jesus' Blood; White - Sins Cleansed; Blue - Baptism; Green - Growth; Gold - Heaven), and after which they put each ribbon (6 total) in a page of their new bibles with a verse for what each color meant. It was a great time for them to learn how to look up verses. They works so hard to get the ribbons in the correct place.
We followed this with a hide-and-seek game called Camouflage. The idea being to hide as close to the seeker without being seen.
Lastly, we did bedtime stories. I don't know all the details as we have 7 groups, but let me mention one. Last night ward one girls had a very hard time with the bedtime stories. The first night they had a number of girls ages 15-12. They bonded quickly and were very excited to deal with some real issues in their lives. At midnight that night 16 kids joined that ward. Because of space and the fact that they wanted to keep kids together from that orphanage, this group of kids last night the span of ages was 15 to 8. The older girls were no longer willing to open up with the younger girls there. The younger girls can't hardly stay awake for the time that we do these stories. It seemed as if this was a disaster. Even with this Tricia gave them an assignment to read 1 John. As the girls had seemed totally check out, we didn't know if any would really do it. Today, We decided to split this group into two and do stories with the older girls separate from the younger ones in this ward. Much to our surprise, the older group all had done there homework. In fact they got in trouble during rest time, because they were talking about what they were learning and didn't fully understand. Which was the topic of the lesson tonight. In addition, they were able challenge the girls on jealousy as they have been struggling with this. They are so excited for what will come next.
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