LAST Ministry Day!

(Paul, Jordan, and Jake writing prescriptions.)

(Angel being tossed in honor of a crowd pleaser in the plaza today!)

Hey there...

we´re here to report on our very last ministry day of the Uruguay mission trip!

First, Teresa will share something from today´s clinic:

-this next post is from mama teresa, but mckay is typing it. mama wrote it all down, but if there are any spelling mistakes or errors, blame it on mckay.

the clinic was slow today but the highlight was when two boys off the street came in after being seen by the doctor, they came over to the prayer station and we talked to them until they were comfortable. we were just going to pray for their physical needs but then i felt we should ask if they had jesus in their heart. the translator, katie, felt like she should ask if they had heard of jesus. one of they boys, esteban, said he didnt know who jesus was, but over the past week many people had mentioned jesus to him. katie told him the story of jesus and all he did for us and asked if esteban wanted to accept jesus into his life. he fully understood that he was guilty of sin and he very willingly accepted jesus christ ino his heart. i saw a homeless boy soften and change right before my eyes...walk well done.

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Next, McKay is going to write about a vey funny activity we did today, but first I give you a photo of Angel and Laura demonstrating their jump roping skills during some ministy in the park.

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This is McKay...Today we had a pretty slow clinic. The leaders decided we should do a fun activity to get our blood flowing, and the activity was...
another drama with a twist.
our biggest drama, in the beginning, requires a lot of people. so... we all picked numbers out of a hat. all of the roles were numbered 1 through 14, and 15 was a wild card. here is the list of people and their roles.
(role) role they had before switch, name, (role) role after switch

(here are¨"Adam & Eve". We laughed so hard, it was nuts!)
(God), Tiger, little girl -he put on my size small hot pink shirt and skipped with a little doll the whole drama
(Jesus), Greg, Eve
(Satan), Ricky, Adam

(Adam), Jake, karate guy
(Eve), Amy, Jesus

(mime), Austin, mom
(mime), Savannah, karate woman
(mime), Angel, God
(mime), Laura, soccer player
(-----), Jordan, mime
(karate guy), Paul, mime
(karate woman), Jenny, mime
(soccer player), Becca, mime
(little girl), McKay, Satan
(Mom), Taylor, WILD CARD, - she could do anything she wanted to using any props and could come in at any moment.

Anyways... that was absolutely hilarious seeing Tiger be the litle girl along with Ricky and Greg having to be Adam and Eve and love each other. But, people seemed to think that my being Satan was pretty out of character compared to the litle girl. Everyone had fun with it and Leah filmed it the whole time. It was a blast.

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And now we have Jordan to tell you about our plaza adventure today!

WOOO! we decided to head out to the park to go and minister. we have such a short time left why not use it to the fullest? we were informed that we were going to be going to a plaza. so everyone grabbed their drama shirt and put on a smile. we started walking with a group of about thirty including close friends from the church and 3 missionaries that are living in Uruguay. keep in mind that we are in a city environment.. nothing short of the amount of chaos on the Las Vegas strip. trying to stay together was a large task in itself. a constant flow of traffic on the sidewalk going up and down, the loud and angry cab drivers, yelling from the stands on the side of the streets to buy a matte, it is an everyday life for these people. so we pass the plaza we had been at yesterday...32 blocks and very sore feet later we had arrived at the new plaza we were going to perform in. gathering crowds was not the hard part, it was keeping their interest. We had the help from the local missionaries, they blew fire, juggled fire, and rode around on a unicylce! It was great!!!! we performed hats, in the begining and dead man. some were interested, some listened, and some kept walking. it was told to us by a local that never has such a large crowd been drawn because the locals are so un-interested. He was impressed with how many people gathered around and watched us. So many people kept coming that we gave TWO different invitations to accept Christ, instead of just one. We packed up, and headed out. I think that the sidewalks grew and extra 10 blocks or that we took the long way home. a plastic chair back at our destination has never felt so great.... :D

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Hopefully we will get a post in from Miami the day after tomorrow. Our plane leaves for Buenos Aires at 5:00 PM tomorrow. GOOD NIGHT!!!!!

Ministry in Montevideo

Hola everybody, this is Jake. Today after a couple of hours at the clinic we decided to journey to the town plaza to perform some dramas. The trip was about a 30 minute walk from the church.

(Paul carrying the cross on our walk.)

When we arrived there was a big sidewalk intersection right in the middle of the plaza filled with busy people. There was a small stage in one of the corners of this intersection. We performed every skit that we had with the exception of "Sin Bucket".







The dramas went smooth except for the dog poop that "somebody" tracked onto the stage. I wasn`t affected, but uh Austin... ya she attracted some poo-poo along the way. After we performed we walked around the plaza giving stickers and balloons to every kid that we saw. We also passed out invitations to our clinic. We ended our quest with a few of us a bit discouraged but maybe a person passing by heard just the little bit they needed. Well need to get in bed, got another clinic tomorrow bye, oh YA when we get back; if your lucky, ill MOONWALK for you.

Ciao



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Hello friends and family!! This is Tayler! Today in the afternoon we visited a park that was right across the street from our clinic. This park was equipped with the usual playground things: swings, see-saws, and a small basketball court. When we first arrived we made some balloon animals for the kids and prepared for our first drama called the Chicken Skit.







In this skit we all pretend to be different things (mainly animals) and Jake, the chicken, perched high on a swing, making the whole audience laugh. After that drama, we did three others. Other than the girls and guys from the church, there were not many other people at this park. At the end of our dramas, Jerry and Leah decided to teach us the Doctor´s Office skit, in which everyone has different symptoms. Symptoms included itching, coughing, puking, sneezing, and laughing and screaming uncontrollably. I loved it!

Greg (Jesus) & Co. during the "In the Beginning" drama

Tayler is blind...in "Blind Lead the Blind" drama

Scene from "In the Beginning" Note the creepy guy in the back!

When we finished, we passed out flyers for the clinic and invited some people to church. Then we left the park and went back to the clinic at the church. There, a few of the girls from the church wanted to teach the team a dance that they had made up. So, our willing team (the girls and Jake) got in line and learned a part of the dance. It turned out to be a lot of fun and we were glad to spend a little time with the girls. We then had a service with worship, dramas and prayer. It turns out that although there were few people at the park that afternoon, one lady accepted our invitation to come to the service! Even when we didn´t really feel like anyone was listening at the park, the Lord touched someone´s heart and brought them in. He is so faithful! We had a wonderful afternoon spending time together and sharing God´s truth and love.P.S.: By the way mom, Jake and I did not ditch you... you guys just didnt come with us! :P(oh ya and I miss you haha)

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Well hello there, this is Angel here and I am going to be telling you a little bit about what we did tonight. Tonight after our church service we went back to to the plaza that we visited earlier today to do some more dramas. We decided to go back at night because in Montevideo, thats when the people come out. Here in Montevideo people stay out late, eat late, and commute late. Edi, our friend from the church who has been with us of the majority of our trip, decided to provide our crowd pleaser-gatherer for tonight. Among his many talents, including worship leader and interpreter, can also breathe fire!

It was amazing but the kerosine made the bus smell quite stinky if I do say so myself. After the breathing of fire we did some of our dramas. We did doctor's office, sin bucket, hats, blind, and In the beginning. Athough while we were doing our dramas the people in the plaza seemed more interested in what they had already been going about. Even though people in general weren´t very interested we still had a small crowd who were watching. We had to leave right after our dramas because of time constraint but we touched a few people and thats all that matters. So I would consider tonight a success!

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Hola, this is a blurb from Leah...

we want you to know that a few on the team are feeling under the weather, so please please pray for them to recover fast! (and that the rest of the team remains well and healthy).

Special Post for Doug & Sherry from the WI-FI ZONE

hey now!!!!

Me (ricky) and Leah have been working our tooshs off tonight, just like every other night trying to faithfully post these blogs! The team has been in bed, asleep, for over an hour, dreaming of summertime weather, by the way... And the reason that we are so late is partially because of your kids Take and Jayler, who wrote the blog tonight by the way... So the blog will be up momentarily, so you keep pressing that refresh button that we all know you are punching RIGHT THIS VERY INSTANT!!! WE need to go to bed...

the blogging EXTRAORDINAIRE,

ricky

P.S.

my dad is crying that i did not mention that he and jerry have been here as our 'security guards' and morale support (watching the uruguay and argentina soccer game)...

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