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Greetings and salutations everyone! It’s Rachel and Corinne being the blogmasters for tonight. Today was our last day here on Provo. :( One word can pretty much sum it all up, amazing. This morning we woke up way early and did our devos on the beach at 6 A.M. like always. Then we had fourty five minutes to eat breakfast, get ready, and be on the bus, ready to go at 7:45.

DSCF6437After we all were set and ready for the day, we headed off to our first destination, the largest high school on the island. There were several hundred teenagers at this assembly. It was their last day so they did all their presentations and then it was our turn to take the stage. We started out with Jump to get everyone pumped up. Honestly, doing that dance made us feel so small and horrible at dancing compared to the girls from the school who danced before us. We tried our best though! The next skit was “God So Loved” with team Amazing. To tell you the truth, it was pretty amazing itself. Just kidding! But it probably was the best we have done yet this week. Following that Ellie and Kris did the “Heart Skit”, the kids loved it. We also did the doctor skit and we ended with “Everything” with team Awesome. It was awesome. After we were done with the skits we invited them to ask Jesus into their hearts. There were so many hands raised! It was so cool just to see their reactions to everything we said and did, it was a great experience.

Next, we got onto the bus ready to go back to the hotel, thinking we had nothing to do the rest of the day. Then we got: good, better, and best news!
Good News- We got invited to a school who had heard about us to do a last minute assembly immediately following the previous school.

Better News- We were going to go out on a boat and….GO SNORKELING!!! (after the last assembly.)
Best News- There was a man who was a soccer coach, and was always watching us during the Mega Sports Camp. And he talked to Pastor John about helping out and being apart of what we were doing. Also, he hopes to get another camp together after we leave, and continue tying together sports and God!
We were all soooo excited to hear all this.

We went to the primary school to do the assembley and everything went great! All of dramas and skits went very smoothly.
After that we all rushed back to the hotel to get ready to go on our snorkeling trip. Then we all walked down to the beach and waited for our boat to come and get us.

DSCF6475Once it came we all got on and grabbed all our gear. flippers, goggles, the whole shahbang! They took us out to a reef where we all jumped in and explored the underwater world. It was so cool. We saw so many types of fish and coral. Many of us even dived down to the bottom to touch things down there. For alot of us, it was our first time snorkeling and it was amazing! After awhile they called us in and gave us snacks and drinks. Then they took us to another spot and we looked around there for a little bit. The best part was saved for last. They took us to this one spot on the island that was uninhabited and had a lot of coral and rock. On the island were these rocky cliff type things and they were covered top to bottom in conch shells! It was an awesome sight. We all pretty much freaked out because we were so excited. After pictures and searching for just the right shell we headed back to the hotel. The boat ride/snorkeling trip was definitely one of the highlights of the day.

We were on a very tight schedule and only had 20 minutes before we had to be on the bus ready to go to the sports camp. And we did it! At least we were pretty close I think. The sports camp was pretty laid back today, we just let the kids play around and we didn’t do any drills or anything. We did a couple dramas for them, which they enjoyed alot and gave out some prizes. The kids had a great time, and I think we’re all going to miss them a lot!

Rachel is having trouble focusing cause its 12:36 A.M. so I think we’re gonna end this thing soon.
This trip has been life changing for all of us. And to think that we are leaving tomorrow is a bittersweet kind of feeling. This island has made an impact on all our lives and God used us in such amazing ways. We will miss it so much!

Okay, well we haven’t even started packing yet.
Time to get this show on the road.
See you all in about 24 hours-ish!
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now.
we’re.
done.

love,
Rachel & Corinne

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