Youth Mission Update Friday night (last one!)

"It feels good to be in America," Jerry B. said tonight from Tucumcari, New Mexico. The group got an early start out of Mexico with about an hour to get through the traffic at the border. The trailer was inspected and it took about 30 minutes for them to check out Marcela's (she's our Brazilian exchange student) paperwork.

Tonight the group is hanging out at the pool and hot tub of their hotel, reading the Horizons blog, checking email and their myspace pages.

The theme song for the week has been the Steve Miller Band's Dance, Dance, Dance. Apparently, it has kept everyone rockin' and their spirits high, both generations. Julie B. said they listened to the song all the way to the job site and back. "All day, everyday," she said. Julie is happy to be back in the states but said the trip was a great experience and she has been reminded to appreciate what we have here.

Julie said she and Jen have really bonded. They are in the same HOME group and when Julie first decided to go on the trip, she was the only female and there were only 4 adults. She asked Jen to consider coming along -- she works for the school district and would be on summer break. Julie said Jen decided in less than 24 hours to go.

This was Julie's first trip with the youth group. She wanted to go last year but couldn't. "I thought about it and prayed about it. I felt God was pulling me in this direction."

Jerry said their goal is to start out at 7:30 tomorrow morning and with losing an hour getting into Central Time, they figure they'll get to Lincoln around 8:30 p.m. Tonight's plan is probably another game of Mafia. Jerry said they all played for about three hours the other night and it was a lot of fun.

Real showers. Clean clothes. Pool. Hot tub. Pizza Hut.
Welcome back!
LMF