Peru Journal Entry 2

January 17th

Today we went to church at San Mateo, where the sports and arts camp is going to be held. The church service was beautiful. The church sanctuary is basically concrete walls with an open celling that has a cloth tarp over it, that you can see through. Yesterday was Lima’s Anniversary, I believe 400 plus years, we went to the central part of the city and heard music, had dinner and watched people, it was good fun.

January 18th

Today the Lima Sports & Arts Camp started. We played American football with the youth and they really seemed to enjoy it. Quite a few became pretty good at throwing, catching and kicking a ball they had never seen or held before. The arts camp went really well too, the youth took to the box drumming very well (which should be expected the box drum or the cajone is from Peru), as well as the two physical art pieces where the youth are making a huge collage as well as individual ones for themselves.

Jim gave a piece of his testimony today and it was wonderful. He spoke about how in sports he had been pushed into leadership roles and he believes it was part of God’s plan for him to become a leader within the church later on in his life. Jim told the youth that they should step into leadership roles when asked because the responsibility will help them and God’s kingdom in the future.

I do have one more thing to write about but I will wait until we get back to visibly show you on video. I believe it will surprise a lot of you, its surprising me.