Im still alive!

                Well once again I attempt to write a summary of the last few weeks, our adventures, and those with our Supervisors. We have recently gone to Fore Abby which is an old monastery that was built in the 12 hundreds. We got to take loads of pictures, climb around on the ruins, and had some craic. I have posted pictures on Facebook if you are interested. The week started with going to mass in the Village and then following some quick food we went to Mullingar to pass out Pro-life pamphlets. Raymond, the man who asked us to help him, then treated us to an amazing brunch. Raymond was such an amazing contact to make giving us supplies for youth group and showing interest in helping more in the future!!! After a great meal we headed to Tesco with only 130 euros to spend, which is about 50 bucks less then we normally spend. With God’s providence we made it out with everything we needed!

            Monday was our day off and as a day off goes it was pretty nice except we were all excited and on the edge of our chairs waiting for our supervisors to arrive. Mark and Kristen would be spending the whole week with us in the Village. Mark and Kristen are the supervisors of my team, each team has a guy and a girl supervisor that watches over our team and is there for support if any is needed. That evening after their arrival we had some one on ones, dinner, and biscuits and tea with the parents of the kids in our youth group, which was a lot of fun especially with Mark and all the Moms remembering him. Tuesday was another great day we finished our one on ones, had some lunch then following some delicious left overs, we, the five of us, we sent off to Mullingar to do a Bigger Better scavenger hunt. Intimidating, fun, and little crazy we had a great time ending with two shirts and a Bar apron. We ended the night with some guy and girl time which for the guys consisted of the Greyhound pub, three beers, some champions league soccer, a very annoying dog, and to finish it all of a game of pool. Then after a walk back to the house the girls asked if we the guys wanted to watch some Chuck… which was of course a yes! On my influence I have got my entire team addicted to the show Chuck, which if you haven’t watched it do it!

            Wednesday was our supervisor planned Team Day, which we were all very excited for and it lived up to our expectations. After a sleep in, 9 am, some breakfast, we started carving pumpkins and hanging out having the craic. Then after we finished we headed into Mullingar all seven of us in a five seater car, an adventure let me tell you. We put Mark in the trunk, Marie on the floor and the rest of us squeezed in around her. In Mullingar we played an awesome game of Bowling and hung out in the arcade. We all enjoyed ourselves and the time to hang out with our supervisors and each other. That night we had a very power Supervisor lead Team Prayer, with reflection and our supervisors praying over each one of us. Thursday basically consisted of ministry preparations, and last minute getting ready for our youth group. The youth group went really well and we all learned a lot about the saints and how one person changed the world around them. Our Supervisors told us that we seemed like pros, like we had been doing youth nights for months.

            Friday was sad, our supervisors left. We all didn’t want them to go, and minutes after they left realized how much we missed them. We spent our afternoon shopping hoping to find joy in that; sadly it didn’t really bring us the joy we wanted. But I did find a pure class Wool Coat that was 60% off! To end the great week we did some team stuff on Saturday, team meeting, team sport, and just enjoying the slower day. A man named Matthew stopped by and Marie and I had a very long talk with him about faith, his life experiences, and how he has turned to God. It was an awesome experience to share our time with him and hear his story, we have been praying for him since and hope that he can continue to grow closer to God, and reach his dream of being a counselor. Overall supervisor visit number one was amazing, we love our supervisors and can’t wait till we can see them again.

Since that week we have been busy with Ministry planning, on two days we planned the next six weeks of ministry for a junior youth group, our senior youth group, a second senior youth group, and getting into schools of the surrounding area. We as a team experienced Irish Halloween, which consisted of a lot of fire crackers, fireworks, and some drunk people in the neighborhood. I am really enjoying Ireland and very glad I am here continue to pray for me and all the work NET is doing here.