a day of basketball, yes i mean a great day

exactly! a great day.

i woke up this morning and the team of americans were going to take presents to the kids at guanduleys for a birthday party of sorts but my day had a different path. after breakfast will and i headed out to the basketball court, which is called a "cancha" in spanish. i told you about the six week league that i was a coach in, well, i have practices on tuesday and all of the teams have games on saturday. having the league for six weeks is a step towards teaching these kids responsibility and dependability. hopefully. haha

so, starting at nine i reffed three games and then coached a game at 11:30. we won and i really like my team, we have some good players. and i took my camera but then i was too busy to take pictures, sorry everyone. next week i promise. then me and will came back and had lunch, i rested until two and we went back to finish reffing games.

there were only two left in the afternoon and we were done by around 4 o'clock i think.

this is a really good time for me to be bonding with those young guys.

OH OH OH OH!!!!! big news that i want you all to pray for. will has this big plan to get G.O. its own land to build courts and fields and a sports facility so that we can stop having to fix up all the courts that get destroyed because the people don't take care of them and so it becomes easier to do camps and provide space for our needs. there has been this perfect piece of land that is close by and it is amazing. large, flat, gorgeous and owned by a rich guy who doesn't need to sell it. so what was his price? thirteen million dollars U.S. outrageous! well, the praying comes in with the fact that someone just showed will a piece of land that he likes even more. i haven't seen it yet, but will likes it a lot and has even gotten the go ahead by the president of G.O., Brooke Brotzman, to go after it. the price?????? one million dollars. this is the next big step in the amazing growth that G.O. has been experiencing and right now i want you all to cover this in prayer. pray for the money, pray for the process, pray for all the kids and adults that will be reached because we will be able to expand with this land. pray hard. pleeeeeeeaaaaassssseeeee!!!!!

and keep praying for me. i love you all!!