Buenos noches de Ticuman! Our last camp of the summer has just concluded and we are thanking the Lord for how many kids we have had at our camps these past few weeks and how many of those kids made a decision for Christ! This week consisted of great messages and worship along with pool games, a game of “Where’s Billy”, rugby, rock climbing, campfires, water balloon launches and, of course, mud pit games. I chose not to participate in the mud games because I was trying to let the gash on my foot heal and didn’t want it to get dirty. At least that’s what the responsible and smart person in me was saying. So I did very well in that decision, except, I didn’t know that others had already made a different decision about that. After the mud games were over with, all the girls chased me around the soccer field to throw me in the mud pit, but they weren’t successful. However, when the girls were rinsing off at the hose, a connection part in the hose broke free and I ran over to put it back in. With my back turned to them, all the guys gang tackled me and dragged me off to a big chocolaty splash in the mud pit. I just laughed and enjoyed it, because I knew they enjoyed throwing me in. In any case, I had to scrub my wound out really well for fear of going back to that crazy doctor at the clinic in town who seems to enjoy inflicting pain upon others. I think I did a good job cleaning it, because that wound is looking a whole lot better now and is finally healing. Yesterday, almost all of the counselors left the camps and it was really hard to see them all leave, especially because of the friendships I had developed with them over the past 3 weeks. But they are hopefully going to be at my roommate Gerardo’s wedding on August 20th. So I am looking forward to seeing them there. This past week we caught a giant tarantula in our apartments kitchen! He was crawling on the countertops and we took a container and trapped him. Later on we took him out to play with him and that spider is almost as big as my hand when it is spread out. It has to be one of the ugliest things I have ever seen, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to hold it. These next couple days we be times to recuperate from the camps and we already have a work team here with us from North Carolina that will be finishing some work in the apartment complex I stay in along with clearing out a bunch of trees on the mountain and various other projects. Us short termers will start work with them on Monday. I’ve met all of them already and they seem like a great group of people. Some other good news to report is that G, my roommate, is back with us at El Monte. He came back for the last day of camp and will be leaving on Monday. He is feeling quite a bit better, although still not at 100%. Thank you for your prayers for him, and I’m sure it won’t be long before he has fully recovered. So this next week will be a lot of working with the team from North Carolina and then the staff here wants me to better my Spanish, so next week I will be leaving for Cuernavaca to live with the host family and improve my Spanish. Reporting from the mountains of Mexico, this is Billy Beaumont, El Monte News.
Vamos a cantar, con la musica del cielo, vamos a cantar, alegres porque escuchas cuando cantamos para exaltar Tu nombre.
Billy
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