Contributed by Naomi Phillips

Hey it´s me, Naomi.   Reporting from way down south!  

Today was an AWESOME day!   On the van ride to La Carpio we all listened to Lindsey as she read her blog, if you are reading this you probably read her´s (which was very good).  Once we got to El Refugio we settled down to start our day.  We started the morning with our skit.  Karen (my mom) was not able join us because she was sharing her testimony with the New Horizon staff, which went very well.  Lindsey and I gave a devotional from Luke Chapter 1, about how God has given each one of us a special gift, and how we should be excited about it.  It was after Duncan asked the question ¨Is being tempted a sin?¨  when the girls really started to talk.  After the devotional we all branched off into our groups.  The soccer clinic went well (I got hit twice with the ball... and yes it hurt!) and from what I heard all the other group´s activities went well, all except for John Grosser.   His computers were not behaving very nicely for him.  There was a slight set back when someone tried to be helpful, and cleaned up the computer room and disconnected all the network cables and wrapped them neatly in a pile.
 
After an AMAZING lunch we hit the road running again!  Karen, Suzie, Kathy, Lindsey, and I went to help with Kid´s Club and boy was that fun!  We separated the kids up into groups of younger and older kids.   Each group had a craft.  The young kids drew pictures of baby Moses, and the older kids built paper houses on rocks.  The fun started later when Jeffry, one of the young men who help out with the children´s program, got the kids together for a game.  In the game there is a bottle in the middle of the room and two balls on benches located on either side of the room.  There are two teams (Jeffry gave the team names… the head-lice and the cockroaches) and each person has a number.  When Jeffry calls your number you run out grab a ball, run to the other side,  jump up on the bench and try to knock the bottle over before the person on the other team knocks it over.  To put it bluntly...the kids LOVED it!  When the bottle was knocked down the noise was deafening.  When Jeffry would call the next number the room would be dead silent!  Somehow Lindsey and I got into the game and I hate to say it, but we were well...bad!  A little girl told me it was because we were ¨Gringas¨.   Then something amazing happened!  No the Lord did not come down and talk to us… though that would have been close.  I scored the winning point for my team!  Yes, little Naomi, the Gringa, got the winning point.  Another little girl surprised me when she jumped into my arms to congratulate me.  I wasn´t expecting her! I thought I was going to drop her!   The look on my face must have been funny because Lindsey laughed for five minutes.
 
On the way home we were all very tired.  We found out that Lindsey gets ¨loopy¨ when she is tired.   John Sperring came up with a great game!  He would stick his head out the window and pull it back inside when a car came whizzing up beside us.  The cars drive so close to each other that you can put your hand out two inches and touch them!  Susie Quinn loved it!  She wanted to join in (actually it was funny to listen to her yell at Jon ¨Muy stupido back here! ¨she would say).  Susie speaks perfect Spanish.  Her sentences go like this... ¨Needo helpo pleaseo¨...yeah fluent!   I think that is it, I had a ton of fun today.  Please continue to pray for us, we really need it!   Adios or as Susie would say ¨goodbyeo!¨