This week at church I helped out with the Vacation Bible School program for the disabled. At times I felt that I wasn't really needed and that I wasn't making a difference, but I need to remember that it's the attitude of serving with joy that is important. The theme was Love PLUS(in other words, love completes everything). It made me realize that love and smiling are universal. Although it was sometimes hard to communicate with them, I don't need to know Korean to show love to them. They disabled students are just happy when you show them attention and play with them. One girl kept hugging me and gave me a picture that she drew of me. It was really cute. Throughout the camp, we had worship songs and activities. Then we spent the night at the church. In the morning, we had stations with games, crafts, and snacks. They even had a dance party where they made us dance on stage in front of the campers. We ended the camp with a water war outside. There was a bubble station, water balloon station, and water gun station. They even had a relay race where you had to carry eels with your bare hands from one bucket to the other! I think I screamed one too many times!! They were soo squirmy!
Our church last week started the 24/40 prayer challenge with the youth. This means that there is always someone praying 24 hours a day. They set up a prayer room and a different person prays every hour. This goes on for 40 days. At first I thought that an hour was a really long time to pray, but the hour went by surprisingly fast. It was a really good time of being still and worshipping and thanking God. It is really powerful to think that we are praying continuosly.

On Saturday, we visited a palace built in the 1400s that has been kept up over the years. It was very beautiful. It's hard to believe that we only have 2 weeks left. We are trying to cram a lot of things in during that time. Next weekend we are traveling 4.5 hours to stay at the beach.