Day 8:
This was our last day of the trip! We started with devotional at the Whole Foods Market where we got our buffet breakfast! Yummy! Then we meet up with the Fishers for our Historical walking tour. Their little girls are precious and I am so glad the whole family joined us. Aralyn had a hard time walking for long, she kept saying “But I need to breath...” “But I need to rest.” Then one time she and Janna were taking a little while to join the rest of the group and Aralyn came around the corner with some daffodils that they bought from a street vender! :) Precious.
We learned a lot on the tour. One church we went in was the King’s Church. It became the nation’s first Unitarian church. Inside of the church the did not have pews that were long rows, they had pews that were boxed off. This was done as a way to make money for the church and so that the congregation could gain status. How sad is that!
We learned about a preacher who preached the Gospel with no amplification to a huge crowd of like 6,000. We visited a really old cemetery that Samuel Adams is buried in. Do people these days know he did more than “brew beer?”
We ended our tour at the Quincy market where we ate some Clam Chowder then shopped in a hurry. We said goodbye to the Fishers! (Excited to see them and the Mabrys at the Dream Conference this July!) Then went to to the airport and headed South!
Thank You’s:
Thank you Ten Days for a second great trip!
Thank you Mabry’s and Fisher’s for hosting us and teaching us about the city you love and serve!
Thank you for new close friends like Grace! So glad this trip brought us together even though we have known each other for years, our friendship really grew drastically over the course of this trip! A bridesmaid you will be! :)
Thank you Jesus for bringing me to Boston, for opening my heart to the city, opening my eyes to you, and teaching me sooo much! YOu love me more than I know, bring me to this city I could tell you were loving on my soul even through all the service and evangelism we did on this trip!
Memories I will have forever:
~ My fave part of the trip was really talking to Adam and Donny about God calling them to plant the church in Boston! Still can’t get over their selflessness to uproot their families and reach people “not in their own backyard” for Christ!
~Loved doing evangelism at Harvard even though the lawn guy acted like a security guard and removed us from campus! (Wow really!)
~Bonding with Grace and Lauren my roomies for the trip! We kept saying why haven’t we been close before now? :) (Love Miss Victoria too but we already pretty tight! :))
~“I will take you”= This is something one of the men that lived in the YMCA (basically a place for men to live while they get on their feet) said. I went through the hall and heard him talking to me and he said “I will take you...” well I didn’t know what he was talking about so I basically made a beeline back to the room to paint in b/c it sort of scared me. He ended up telling Nick the whole story. He wanted to take me to his parent’s house in Puerto Rico to paint for them. Still a little shady but not as bad as what I first thought he meant!
~“Pink Ice cream” Donny and Janna’s two little girls were precious, their baby girl Lilah was precious too. But the two bigger ones Aralyn and Elise said the cuttest things. They called strawberry ice cream pink ice cream.
~Trying to go babysitt for the Mabrys but once we walked about 30 min in the cold to their house, Hope calls and says baby Cole is sick! At least we got to visit for a short while, see their precious house, and ride back with Adam, Alanna, and Nora and her Adam as a daddy call his girls sweet names like “My love”...
~“Lion, otter, beaver, golden retriever” = this was a personality test Derrick told us about.
~Playing the “Amanda from Atlanta that sells avocados” game. A game where you go through the whole alphabet with your name, a place and something you sell or do..
