YUGO Internship 2022

 Last week was a trip. Saturday we went to the waterpark with my family. It was so sweet seeing my mom getting one on one time with each of the interns and Osmar. Then we left and drove home with a stop at Portillos of course.  We got home around 11pm and I had to unpack, repack and get ready for Hume. Sunday morning I left for church to go spend the week with junior highers. It was so heartbreaking to leave my Mexico family for the week. I missed them so much and it was bizarre to be experiencing that alone before everyone will when we leave.      The week at Hume was awesome. I functioned as the Junior High youth pastor with an amazing team of 5 leaders. We had 29 students under our care out of the 500 junior highers and 1,000 high schoolers at Hume that week.  I had a cabin of four 6th graders and three 8th graders. The week went by without any drama aside from some homesickness and a couple trips to the ...

  This was a weird week. After the marathon of the big week we crashed over the weekend before 80 more people arrived Sunday. The difference in campus presence is wild and the cafe has felt empty all week. The single shift has been an incredibly welcome change though. Jemma and I were placed with an awesome team from Virginia for our third time together. We got Gerson and his dad Hernan as our foreman for my first D House (8 feet longer -with two additional bedrooms) which were both things I’d been hoping for all summer. The team was incredibly hard working and we made great progress Monday and Tuesday. I of course took lead on my favorite part of the house - the roof. Wednesday after being there for 30 mins Grace came over from her job site because they were missing all our their Spanish speakers due to VBS or sickness. Gerson sent me over for the day so that I could translate and also to help because they were a little behind. It was a weird trip to do the same thing I had done t...

  This last week was awesome. It was exhausting (but awesome). On Sunday we welcomed 220 people onto campus which is the biggest week in YUGO history. The days felt so long with chores from sunrise till after sunset. I felt like I didn’t see everyone very much. In fact last night was the first time my roommate and I had a chance to really catch up or chat one on one all week. I was paired up with Samy on the build this week. We had a small but willing team. We were building for a pastor and his wife who are waiting on a congregation to pastor. Their family was so sweet and it was a privilege to be there to bless and love on them and feel sure their salvation was secure. It was also so cool to see their church rally and come day after day to help build or make some food. I spent all of Monday and Tuesday just speaking Spanish with the church guys so that at points I would hear English from the team and it would not register. Samy and I have a great dynamic and I led the whole roof w...

  Man time is flying. It is unbelievable that we are more than halfway done with our summer here. This week was super sweet. It was a medium size group of individuals and family with one church group. A number of the interns families were here which was super fun. I definitely missed my family but it was sweet to have time to get to know my teammates parents. I built with the ome church group. They were from CA (in San Diego) and it was myself and Jemma (the volunteer from Stockton) with them so it was fun to be Cali folks. It was a great week construction wise and relationally with them just hanging out in traffic and having fun while working hard on the build.   The week was also pretty tough. There were some job site frustrations and I continue to realize that even when I think I’ve learned how to do a part of the house there is more to learn. In addition to that I was feeling very drained and missing the fam. Wednesday was a sweet provision from God having our “first Wedn...

  This week was very different. On Sunday night, after meeting our family and team, I got pulled aside by Osmar. He told me they needed another translator and I was being pulled to a basketball camp for translation. After I found out, I told the other interns and Grace reminded me that I had literally said that morning how cool it would be translate sometime. God was clearly listening.       Monday morning, I went with Osmar and Abi to buy the basketball hoops. We had a really sweet time visiting in the car and it was a total answer to prayer. I got to ride with them everyday and we had a lot of talks (mostly in Spanish since Abi doesn’t speak much English at all). They are such a sweet couple and I love being with them. It was weird to be working with kids all week in the sun. It was not the same tired as the construction site but still just as (if not more) tiring. There was no break from the beating son, and there was a lot of running...

     It’s been a wild week. Saturday was a lovely day of rest. We slept well, spent time at the beach and went to Abi and Osmar’s (intern leaders) baby shower. Sunday I slept in and was very encouraged and concocted by Nathan’s message on generosity. It really nicely complimented the conversations I had been having with my lifegroup during the semester. Sunday afternoon we had a short birthday party for Lauren before the teams got here.       Sunday at 3 teams started arriving. The first team was Will’s church finally bringing our 8th intern. The construction days went quick. We had a lot of kids on our team that could speak Spanish because of their immersion school. They would leave for VBS after lunch everyday and then we would crank out a few more hours of work. Wednesday we stayed at work till 6:15 in order to finish the house early. Because we were farthest away we had to dedicate first or last so we opted for the former. It meant a really long da...