This part of the trip was truly relying on God in every aspect, and getting my first true view of Panama and how amazing my trip was.
Day 5:
Another day in Panama City. It's so beautiful here, we leave early tomorrow, I'm so ready to finally be there! We've had to pack up our supplies we need for our part on the islands and practice our VBS a little more.
Day 6: Travel to Islands
Woke up at 3AM, I think we left around 4ish. We had a three hour bus ride through the beautiful Panamanian countryside. We saw lots of mountains, it was amazing. Then we made it to our port and began our long wait for our boats. We got to get snacks from a real snack shop, it was cool.
But our boats weren't there, and then some were but not ours. Then one group that had already left came back because their motor died. So we waited around for about three hours, then finally got on our boat, we didn't leave for a good thirty minutes because they wanted our whole group to leave at the same time. Then we were off, starting the longest hour of my life.
The waves were fun to go over but I was sitting in the back and on the side, thus all the water splashed from the boat came directly to my mouth and eyes. I kept my eyes closed for 3/4ths of the ride and we finally made it to the island where we made a quick stop at. Once I rinsed the salt water out of my eyes I finally got to see the beauty of the San Blas Islands. They're little pieces of paradise. Then we got into a larger boat that we didn't get soaking wet in. We got to look at all the beautiful places for about an hour long boat ride. Then we got tot the first island to drop off the other group, and my island is about five minutes away. We were finally here! It was weird, the people live in shacks and are very poor but they have electricity. My island is the biggest inhabited one. It's called Nargana.
We got to the church, it's baptist! We got to play with all the kids and they're SO sweet! I got to speak Spanish to them, it was fun. Our supplies got shipped to another island so the locals lent us hammocks for the night. It finally hit me I was in Panama, it's so beautiful. the first words I said when I stepped off the boat were, I think I'm falling in love.
Day 7: Sunday
Our first day of ministry was great! We did VBS in the church that morning, it went really well. I got to translate which was awesome and the kds are so fun to play with! It's great, I'm finally doing ministry and it feels so right. After VBs, we ate lentils, ha! We all were laughing and making a good situation out of a possibly bad one. We all kept yelling, "Can you taste it?!" [Referring to being salt to the world and also staying strong even through eating lentils.] It was great, then we got to go to a jail an dminister to eh guys there. I was the translator for my group and it was pretty fun. We all told our testimonies to them, and we could tell that some of them were impacted. It was really a great experience. Then at night we had couch time, wehre someone shares their testimony with the team, Josh our TL [Team Leader, each team has one guy and one girl TL, they are over 21 and are the leaders of the groups] went it was great!
This was the first view of my island, Nargana.
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