Day 4

Sunday night Mike had a seizure because his blood sugar dropped to low. Poor Joy was so scared and at first wasn't sure what to do. I was awake at that time and i could hear her screaming and banging on Mr.&Mrs. Newburns door. At the time i did not know hwat was going on or who was screaming, but i could feel that something was not right. Mrs.N came down the hall and was banging on Dave's door to get him to come and help them. We were all awake by then. Zach came and told us what happened. It was rather ironic that Mike had that episode since Mrs. Donna had just been talking to Mrs. Julie and i about how she was surprised that we hadn't had any spiritual warfare. We all prayed for Mike and Joy as he and the Newburns went to the ER. Mike didn't remember a thing of that night, all he remembers is that before his episode he woke up with a really high blood sugar and than gave himself an insulin shot, which he must have over dosed on.

So the next morning at breakfast we were all very anxious to hear how Mike was doing. By around 5am they had gotten him stabilized and he was going to see a specialist.

Monday was the first day of camp. Zach and i set up the fields. It was a little difficult since there were mud puddles everywhere and we had only 60 cones plus a couple that the church already had. I learned a valuable lesson, in Ecuador/latin america, time is relative...the church was not prepared for the day and we started the camp over an hour later than we had anticipated. High power soccer is a completely new program to the people at the church and half of the leaders are my age or a year or two younger/older.

Of the kids who came to the camp, about 60 are "high risk", some don't go to school, are not properly cleaned and dressed every day, family life is anything but ideal, and 13 year old girls are getting pregnant.

Yarison and I started of with a group of 3 kids, Jose Luise, Misiel, and Sarita. i helped run the drills for the kids. During the Zone time, bible stories and small group time, i felt a little awkward since i didn't know what was going on. I talked with Maria and tow other teen shwile the kids were playing the games after the zone time. I can usually get the general idea of what they are saying to me. The next day (tuesday) we were scheduled to help run another camp in Manta, a busy busy day!