Pillow Huggers Club

Well, we're on our way to Mexico. Actually, to our hotel in Texas. And actually, we're not moving at all, we're sitting in an Applebees parking lot because the group we hooked up with an evansville thinsks that the 90 of them can walk into a crowded applebees without reservations. but I'm getting ahead of myself. The trip to evansville was fairly uneventful. i was riding in the PHiL family van, and they had enough chips to feed a couple armies. once we got there, their church was the size of two of our high schools, at least. we were on our way to the fireworks by 7.45 and the fireworks weren't supposed to start till 9.00. however, we stopped at a hardees on the way to the firworks, and it was officially the slowest hardees in the history of the world. then by 8.15 we were on our way again, but they were shooting fireworks off already because a storm was comng. it started pouring when the grand finale went off, but it was actually neat to watch with the ligthning, thunder, rain, wind, and fireworks all togehter. it was less cool when it was pouring rain on strange dark roads with tons of people and cars trying to leave at once. when it was juli'es turn to go some car came out of nowhere and slammed on its brakes right in front of us, and then the rude angry lady and her son thought we hit them, even though she could put her hand between the cars. anyway, we spent the night at different family's houses. me tori and ashley stayed with megan, and she had a really nice house. we left this morning a little after 5.30. we have eight different 12-15 passenger vans. us cool goshen kids get a van to ourselves, which is nice. its cool to watch the nine of vans going down the highway. every so often we open envelopes that have tasks for us to do.the first was to unscramble a bible verse, then we had window chalk to write our names on the windows (although we had to redo it at the next stop because we didn't realize the windows were tinted so you couldn't see it) and when we stopped for gas they gave us seven dollars- five dollars to give to someone not connected with our group to help get gas, and two dollars to buy someone who wasn't with our group a drink.the idea was to serve on the way down to mexico as well as on the actual mission. it was actually pretty nice to be able to surprise people like that. anyway, this most recent gas stop, which was also a dinner stop, they pulled into applebees. two big problems- Jal allotted only six dollars per meal. equally problematic, there were 90 of them, and they didn't call ahead, they just showed up. we smart goshen kids went to some fast food place. but were back on the road now, so so be it.


So here is what i want you to do. God helping you, take your ordinary, everyday lives, your eating, sleeping, working, walking around lives, and place them before God as an offering.