Hi everyone! I just want to say thank you for reading our blog and for all the prayers for us here in California. So far the trip has been absolutely amazing! The view here on top of the mountain is gorgeous.. I LOVE it! The team has already made many in side jokes and I feel like I've gotten to know everyone a lot better too! Starting Friday when we got there...we played games to get to know each other and had a good time. On Saturday as you all know, we missed our flight. But I think that was a blessing in disguise.. in some ways. It seemed like a blessing because once we found out we began to pray right away. We even did worship in the airport parking lot, how cool is that??! It was a really neat experience. Yesterday was the first day of VBS and that went really good. I could see the energy in the room especially towards the end of the day, the kids were having a blast and it was great to see them doing so while worshiping Christ! Later on yesterday we went to a few parks to hand out sandwiches. At first I was nervous... I was nervous yet excited at the same time. It turned out to be an amazing experience. People let us pray for them and were so friendly despite all that they have gone through. One of the groups of people my group prayed for requested prayers regarding not only their safety but the safety of everyone who sleeps at the park. I also heard many other awesome experiences other groups within our group had. Later on we did a quick lunch drop off by the library. I watched from the car window and saw how the man Josh was handing the lunches to looked (There were probably at least 10 homeless people hanging out in a group there). He just seemed so happy. He went around kindly distributing the lunches to everyone there, and then he squatted down next to some kids. That really got to me when I saw that their were kids there too. It was an awesome experience and is kind of hard to explain how I felt. Today we've started another great day of VBS and our next stop is to adopt a block and see what we can do to help out there. I'm really looking forward to it! Thank for reading, everyone! Please continue to pray for our safety, that we can share with many others, and that we can serve the Lord and glorify Him! - Cori K.