Wednesday in CO

Laura here…What a day. We started the day working at the Food Bank of the Rockies. It is the largest food bank in Colorado. I was amazed at the amount of food. The four of us were a little nervous about spending the whole day there…you know moving great big boxes of food all day long, just makes for a long day. But wait- it was so fun! We worked with a guy named Andrew. He is 24 and just started a full time job at the Food Bank. He was so helpful in teaching us how to use pallet movers and how to fill orders. It was the first day this week that we spent the day together working. We even had enough free time to push each other around on carts, try pull-ups and laugh a ton.

After work we had about 10 minutes back at the church to change into our Latreia garb before we got to meet with a youth group. We met with the two youth directors at Bethany Lutheran church. They fed us some pizza and then we went to their Wednesday night worship. It was so good for me. It felt like home. Weird how just a LBW and a little “Now the Feast and Celebration” can fulfill the longing for home. I am learning that God can speak to me in so many different ways. How amazing that the Gospel is powerful enough to fill us back up after we are empty.

Spending time with the youth group was so great. It was fun to laugh, to play games, to sing, to pray and to share Latreia. What an encouragement their energy was to me. Well, all except Kevin, a senior in high school who flat out told us that “we weren’t going to make it” Thanks Kevin!

After church we made a long awaited stop for ice cream. The four of us we wired. The night was filled with e-mail, laughter and Jesse’s head lamp. It is hard to believe that we are almost done with Colorado. I think I will be ready to move on…good thing!