Saturday, April 10, 2010

Day 10?

Today we toured London! We went shopping and saw the London tower. :) It was a good time for our team. We are all sore from all the walking! :) We did team devotiond=s which were led by Jake and Hope which went well. Tomorrow we are going to church and then touring all of London. Thanks for all the prayers, we will see you all soon!

Friday, April 9, 2010

The Past Few Days :)

We have been really busy! We have been at the Hill house retreat with a lot of British teens. We had fun playing games like capture the flag, the fruit game, clumps, splat and ninja. We did our main drama yesterday and it went great. We also did our stepping into sin skit. Everything went great. Last night we also got to talk to anyone who needed to talk. We were able to have good discussions and pray together. We all had breakout groups where we discussed different questions related to our lesson. Most of us gave our testimony and they went well. When we all joined this missions team and started talking about this retreat they had told us that the goodbyes where always packed with tears. Most of us brushed that off thinking we wouldn’t cry. We were wrong. Most of us were in tears saying we had never cried this hard on our life. The friendships we made were deep and hopefully long-lasting. Its hard to even blog about it without crying. Any way we said our goodbyes and are heading to London. It should be lots of fun! Please keep praying for us especially as a lot of us really miss our friends. Thanks!

Monday, April 5, 2010

Day 5

Today we went to Warwick Castles. It was sooo pretty and fun! We got some great pictures (which will hopefully be posted tomorrow). We climbed a lot of towers which had a great view. Katie and I went to knight school where we learned how to use a a sword. haha:)It was a lot of fun. Tomorrow we are going to the teen retreat, please continue to pray for us! Thanks for the thoughts and prayers!

P.S.- Hi Maggie and Luke! I miss you!
Natalie,
Have fun in Dc, I'm praying for you! Remember to pray through everything. :)
I love you!!!

Love you Mom and Maddie!!!!!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Day 3-4

So sorry we haven't updated! We have been VERY busy! Yesterday we did a Good Saturday program for young children. We did games, puppets, and Sera and and I did a paintboard. It all went very well and was lots of fun! After that we went to Stratford where we shopped for three hours.:) We got dinner in town and a few of us had fish and chips while others went to Mc Donalds. :) It was quite rainy but we had a lot of fun! After dinner we went to see Romeo and Juliet. It was great and we had rows 3-4 right next to the stage! It was sooo cool! We all went home and crashed and made it to The Sunday morning church service. Pastor Chris had a great message and it was a good time of worship. Today we are spending time with our host families until the evening service. Pastor Rick is speaking and Sara is performing her dance. Please continue to pray for us, we appreciate it!

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, April 2, 2010

Day 1-2

After a small delay in Philly, we made it to England at about 10 in the morning. We then drove 2 hours to the Enderby Church. We had lunch and played games at the church until dinner when we met our host families. After dinner everyone went home and slept. Today we got up and rode a double-decker bus into Leichester where we went shopping with some British kids. Some of us have already picked up a slight accent. :) We shopped for awhile, had lunch, and then went back to the church. We have been playing games, and practicing skits and puppets. We are now hanging out until youth group tonight where we will have games and skits. About 50 kids are coming so please be praying! Please also pray for us as we will soon be going to local parks to invite people to come out tonight. Thank you for the thoughts and prayers I'll update you soon!


I love you Mom, Nat, Maddie! <3

Thursday, April 1, 2010

We are finally here!

We arrived this morning after a long flight and a slight delay in Philly! I will post more later. Today we are meeting our host families.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Prayer Requests

I thought I'd put a list of prayer requests so you can pray specifically. :)

-Our entire team: Mr. and Mrs. Stouff, Dad, Hope, Diamond, Carlyn, Jake, Jasmine, Sara, Katie, Zach, Sera, and me.
-Safe Travels
-Oppurtunities to witness to people
-Courage and words to speak while witnessing
-Good Health
-That the people we come in contact with will have open hearts
Thanks for your prayers, they are deeply appreciated!