On Friday when we arrived, we helped with some landscaping tasks. The lawn in front of their main building had grown over into the rocks, and there were lots of weeds around. We pulled the weeds and helped tame the overgrown grass. Some of the students also went on a tumbleweed roundup to keep them from blowing all over campus in the spring wind. We also primed two new gates for painting.
Friday evening was the part we were all waiting for - dinner and games with the kids! The children living on campus are there because their parents are unable to take care of them. They live at the Children's Home while their parents try to work things out to be able to take them back. Sometimes they are able to reunite with their parents, and sometimes they are adopted by other families. We were excited to meet the kids and the house parents. We played with them outside for awhile and then we had dinner together.
After dinner, we had a game night. Our students planned and prepared Minute To Win It games to play, and they had lots of fun playing with the kids! They did a puzzle race, cup stacking, a chopstick race, a cookie race, and they made salvation story bracelets with them. It was a great night with lots of laughter and fun!
We spent the night Friday and got up to do some more work on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, the wind was blowing very hard and it was extremely cold. Instead of finishing up our landscaping work, the Children's Home put us to work helping with inventory in their commissary. They get tons of food and supplies donated, and each year they must count every item that they have. We were able to do most of that counting for them and save them lots of work!
We are really proud of the students who served in Portales. They showed the love of Christ as they made new friendships and as they worked hard to help out a very worthy cause!
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