Training

So I'm sitting in a hotel next to the hotel that I'm staying in because they have free wireless...  Anyways, I am currently on day 4 of training out here in LA with all of the other AY missions interns.  We got to San Diego on Thursday afternoon and proceeded to Ensenada, Mexico for the last couple of days.  There we did some "mock" events of which we will do with our short term teams this summer (meals, orientation, work project, travel, etc.).  Fun stuff.  On Friday night, the cook in Ensenada prepared us dinner which was called Menudo.  We ate it, but unbeknownst to us was that it was soup with chunks of pig intestine.  Ummm...  I only got about half of the bowl down, I did not, however, throw up or anything along those lines.  :-)  After all of that we headed back to LA on Saturday afternoon and have been here since.  My team is the last to leave for our site so we will be the only ones in LA come tomorrow.  Hopefully I'll be able to communicate with a lot of you then.

Training has been very worthwhile because the emphasis has been on giving everything to God.  This is something that I really committed to doing this past semester.  I think too many times, we take for granted the presence of God and the ability He has.  He is everything, and as such we should lift everything up to Him.  For instance, this summer, I will have times of struggle and difficulty and the only thing that I should and need to do is give it all to God.  I challenge you, as you read this, to think and reflect of all things you haven't given to God and tried to do on your own.  Remember, we are all only human.  What have you not given to Him, our Creator?