Last homecoming!!

Today was the LAST homecoming!! Me and my 2 Hannah friends took the 2 German foreign exchange students! It was super fun! They'd never been to a homecoming before and we took them to Olive Garden! I will now be traveling to Germany to visit them :)

Change the World One Box At a Time

One of the things you may not know is that absolutely no one on the national team is paid. For every single person it is completely volunteer...most of them having families at home to support and a full time job. They have things happening in their lives like a wife with cancer, a child that passed away, and not enough money to keep a house. Yet through all their turmoil and troubles, they saw that the kids are the ones they should be there for. I believe that the devil will only seek to knock down what he finds threatening.... Therefor do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:21).....So this is my challenge to you, give up a weeks worth of coffee, Krispy Kreme donuts or whatever your vice is, and pack double the amount of boxes that you did last year! With your help we can see a box in the hands of every child in need and spread the word of God!!

Philly

Today we got caught in the rain.... And by rain I mean downpour! 

And of course we couldn't go to Philly and not have a Philly cheesesteak! 

And to top off our last night of vacation, we stopped at 3 different places for frozen yogurt :)

How I love eating whatever you want since your on vacation!!!

Philadelphia

I can definitely say I like Philadelphia better than NYC! The people here are a bit nicer and its not as busy! We got to do some site seeing yesterday....

The liberty bell

Went to the printing press

Then went to this huge indoor mall type food court... I don't really know how to explain it but it was huge!! 

Sleep please

This morning we got up at 2am to be to the airport by 3, traveled the 4 hours to Tokyo, time traveled the 13 hours to JFK, spent 2 hours going through customs, met mom and dad at the airport and now we are on our way to Philadelphia. It has been a lot of butt time and I'm ready for a bed... Any bed! The flights both had so many movies there just wasn't enough time to sleep :) needless to say, I'm a bit tired!

Extras

Some of the things that happened or we did, I didn't get a chance to talk about so this is just kind of random things....

On one of the days they took us to US land, it was a cemetery of war veterans.

And I found the Nebraska seal!

You'll see in some of the pictures that like this boy in purple, they pose with their hands for pictures and we finally found out that this is called handsome pose :)

The Boy Scouts of the Philippines!

The living conditions here were very extreme in both ways.... On one side you would see something like this, and then on just the other side of the street would be a nice mall with well equipped houses. 

If we could give a box to every "home" like this, we could have a whole new population in Heaven! 

This is me and my roommate Mikayla in our complementary robes and slippers!!

The team was absolutely incredible and I really feel like I've made some lifelong friends :)

 Not to mention our spectacular leaders

Precious!

Today at the school we were at, out of 1500 kids only 200 received boxes. It is so sad to only be able to give to part of the children when all of them could really use it. 

My new friends!! :)

All of the kids prayed before they opened their box and told God what they really wanted to be in the box an this girl said she got all she ever wanted :) it practically broke my heart!

At our second school, out of 3000 kids only 150 received boxes. It would be tough to find kids in the states with such joy and appreciation but more than that, kids who really whole heartedly want to be a child of Jesus! 

These kids are so precious and it breaks my heart to know that all of them don't get a box. Think how much we could accomplish if every single person packed only 2 boxes?!!