Heading Home!

Heading to the airport! We had a great time but are ready to get back! See you soon!

Day 10?

Today we toured London! We went shopping and saw the London tower. :) It was a good time for our team. We are all sore from all the walking! :) We did team devotiond=s which were led by Jake and Hope which went well. Tomorrow we are going to church and then touring all of London. Thanks for all the prayers, we will see you all soon!

The past few days :)

We have been really busy! We have been at the Hill house retreat with a lot of British teens. We had fun playing games like capture the flag, the fruit game, clumps, splat and ninja. We did our main drama yesterday and it went great. We also did our stepping into sin skit. Everything went great. Last night we also got to talk to anyone who needed to talk. We were able to have good discussions and pray together. We all had breakout groups where we discussed different questions related to our lesson. Most of us gave our testimony and they went well. When we all joined this missions team and started talking about this retreat they had told us that the goodbyes where always packed with tears. Most of us brushed that off thinking we wouldn’t cry. We were wrong. Most of us were in tears saying we had never cried this hard on our life. The friendships we made were deep and hopefully long-lasting. Its hard to even blog about it without crying. Any way we said our goodbyes and are heading to London. It should be lots of fun! Please keep praying for us especially as a lot of us really miss our friends. Thanks!

Happy Birthday!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GABRIELLE!!!!!!!
-ZACH

Day 5

Hi America! lol

This is Hope, and today we went to Warwick Castle! So fun. We got to explore the towers (claustrophobic!!) and we also got to see a lot of beautiful flowers. (Yes, Holly, I took a million pictures!). We really are crazy Americans, and I think we're realizing that more and more. But the people here are awesome, and today was a lot of fun. Some of the Brits came with us, and it was really fun to walk and talk with them. We also got to see our nation's symbol - the eagle - flying next to the towers. Tonight we are going home to our host homes to have dinner and pack for Hillhouse. I know I am so excited to go, and we found out our rooming and breakout group arrangements today. I have been staying at an awesome home with Katrina, and she has a cat named Toby, who is the happiest cat alive.

Anyway, thank you so much for your prayers. I'm not sure if Kesley mentioned this, but the 2nd night here I was really feverish and delirious, and needed to go back to the house and sleep. I missed the youth night and was soooo disappointed. :( But it turned out to just be a head cold, and now I have a sore throat and get headaches throughout the day. Your prayers would be really appreciated, because I would love to still be able to sing for Hillhouse. We leave tomorrow around 10:30 with all of the youth. :D

Thank you for your prayers, and I'm sure Kelsey will update you tomorrow!! We hope to upload video and pictures from the castle tomorrow. Miss you Mom, Dad, Holly, Ryan, Harley and Mia.

- hope

Day 3-4

So sorry we haven't updated! We have been VERY busy! Yesterday we did a Good Saturday program for young children. We did games, puppets, and Sera and Kelsey did a paintboard. It all went very well and was lots of fun! After that we went to Stratford where we shopped for three hours.:) We got dinner in town and a few of us had fish and chips while others went to Mc Donalds. :) It was quite rainy but we had a lot of fun! After dinner we went to see Romeo and Juliet. It was great and we had rows 3-4 right next to the stage! It was sooo cool! We all went home and crashed and made it to The Sunday morning church service. Pastor Chris had a great message and it was a good time of worship. Today we are spending time with our host families until the evening service. Pastor Rick is speaking and Sara is performing her dance. Please continue to pray for us, we appreciate it!

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!!!

Day 1-2

After a small delay in Philly, we made it to England at about 10 in the morning. We then drove 2 hours to the Enderby Church. We had lunch and played games at the church until dinner when we met our host families. After dinner everyone went home and slept. Today we got up and rode a double-decker bus into Leichester where we went shopping with some British kids. Some of us have already picked up a slight accent. :) We shopped for awhile, had lunch, and then went back to the church. We have been playing games, and practicing skits and puppets. We are now hanging out until youth group tonight where we will have games and skits. About 50 kids are coming so please be praying! Please also pray for us as we will soon be going to local parks to invite people to come out tonight. Thank you for the thoughts and prayers we will update you soon!