ok, i am now finally going to finish writing about mission team, do you want to know why? tommorow i leave for yet ANOTHER mission team thing in turku, finland. so i need to finish writing about last mission team before i go to this one. so now, day 2 of mission team...
i wake up and think to myself "oh what a beutiful morning!!! oh what a beutiful day!!! etc. etc....". then i get up, go out into the hallway with miika and see evelin there and we just hang out and talk and have fun for a while. and then i get around to asking what time it is..."4:15" miika says. wait, wait, wait. i didn't have to wake up 'til like 7 and you made me wake up at 4!!! ugh... but of course i didn't care, so then we have i nice delicious breakfast, and hung out some more, and then...we left!! first we went to do this open air (a meeting outside, duh!) and it was awesome we did the line dance(i'm, in this), the chair drama(i'm the dude who laughs), and the evanescence drama (i'm not in this but we used my CD becuase i am a HUGE evanescence fan, thank you auntie for giving me that CD). and then sarah gave an object testimony, and mrs. tyrell talked about god and stuff. and heres the coolest part, all we had was a small CD player that had sertious technical dificulties with each song, and we had trouble getting organized each time, and we had no amplification for when people talked. but, people stopped, watched, and listened. i don't know if anyone really was moved to tears, but people listened and payed attention, which was a lot more than i expected.
so then we go to this corps (pronounced like core, not corpes. if it were corpes that would be a dead body) and get ready for something we're gonna do with the kids, a sunday school type thing. so well everybody else just lied around, me and evelin (we were working together on part of the program) cut out butterflys and got ready. and then when we were done evelin went on the piano and started playing this tune that was like pure magic...it was...so hard...to stay...awa..ke. band we all just crashed so while we tried to sleep anton took pictures of us!! (you don't want to see the picture of me...ugh) and then after that the kids got there and we all woke up got ready to rumble!! me and evelin didn' t have to do anything 'til the end so me and her just helped everyone else, it was fun. we played 2 games with the kids, baked ressurection biscuits (delicious), and basically had a good time. then at the end, i'm still not sure why, me and evelin could't do our thing :-(. i think we were out of time. so then we left and went back to the place where we were staying and had all sorts of fun all the guys and anneli (cuz shes a "tomboy") went out and ran around and junk on the playground. that was fun, i haven't played on a playground in a looooong time.
then that nigt anton had the idea that we should have a party (PARTY!!!!) and i, obviously, loved the idea!! so it fell to me and anneli to plan it. i suggested we play knight, horseman, cavalier ( if you were at english camp you know the game), but that turned out not to good. and then we played broken telephone, and a charades type thing, and did other fun stuff. that was awesome. so then after the party we still had time so we did whatever we wanted. evelin, sarah, and miika played war (hey, i have a secret for you, BLUE MONKEY!!!*) and me and anneli played yugioh. see, thats how cool anneli is, whenever i'm around she steals half my cards and we play yugioh, and even though she doesn't know the rules, she still wins. why would that happen, i wonder...;-). so than after me and anneli finished, i sort of got absorbed into the game of war and anneli went off somewhere. so then after war it was time to go to bed, so i go into the bathroom and do all my go-to-bed stuff (brush teeth, etc.) and come out to see one of the scariest things i've ever seen...mrs. tyrell helping anneli walk down the hall...anneli with blood on her face...mrs. tyrell looking very serious. right away, FREAK OUT!!! i go freak out at miika and evelin to find out what happened, even that wasn't good cuz evelin was already freakin' out(evelin and anneli are twin sisters)!! so then me, miika, and sarah try to help evelin calm down (she was really freaking, hyperventilating, shaking, the whole deal). dude, i was scared to death. so we bring evelin to an unnocupied room and lie her down on a bed, we then try to comfort her by telling her "it's gonna be ok" and stuff. then mrs. tyrell comes and kicks me and miika out, and all the guys have to go to the guys room "AND DON'T COME OUT!!". ok, first we see anneli bleeding with no explaination, then we see evelin freaking with no explaination. ok, right about now i started freaking, all the other guys just went to bed but me and miika where freaking out. we were praying like crazy, we were talking and stuff until we finally had to go to sleep. but we didn't sleep. me and him stayed almost all night (i think i got maybe like and hour and a half of sleep) praying and just freaking. then next morning i wake up with miika's foot in my ribs (he kicked me) and then go out and see evelin, looking better, but her hand was still shaking (it shook almost half the day, that too really freaked me out) and then as we are having a very solemn worried conversation about anneli she comes bouncing out of the girls room, kicks over the chair i'm in (ouch!!) and says "good morning" with a big smile on her face. we note the cut lip and are like "are you ok?". and then we told her of how worried we were and she just laughed and said she was fine. it turns out she fainted, you'll hear why when i tell you about her testimony...
so then after breakfast and everything we go to the big, head quarters helsinki corps and do the meeting. we did dramas and sang. and i gave my testimony. halfway through my testimonay my mind just goes blank. "...uh, i...uh...", braindead. i did manage to finish without looking to stupid though, and every says they didn't notice anything, whatever. so then we go and have lunch at this all-you-can-eat pizza place, man did i leave there full. that food was goooooood!!
so then at the next meeting at a different corps (this on was under where we were staying) we did a drama, sang, and anneli and tanel gave thier testimonies. tanel's testimony was about his life before and after he became a christian, and asnneli's was asbout the night before. i think it would be funny in a sick kind of way if i stopped now and left you hanging in suspenseful worry about anneli, but i am not that mean. so anneli gives her testimony. the week before someone had tried to rape her, i swear i am gonna follow this girl with a knife to protect her!! i had already known about the whole attempted rape thing, she had told me right after it happened, i just didn't know it was affecting her so much. at the time she fainted she had been thinking about it and had been thinking about it and thinking guys only wanted her for her body, and then kept reminding herself that wasn't true. so she was under a huge amount of stress and she fainted. i swear i'm gonna stalk her to protect her...
when i asked anneli if it was ok if i put this on my blog she said to have this as a warning to other girls. stay away from dudes you don't know, especially if they're older then you. if you're with ANYONE and they start getting sexual in any way, or just make you uncomfortable, say you have to go. and if they don't listen, kick, punch, scratch, scream, whatever it takes.
so then after anneli's testimony we finished up the meeting and went with the people and had snacks, and then we got on the boat to leave. and on the way back we do more karoake and some people won mini cruises on the ferry for being such good singers!! and of course our people won (i didn't) becuase everybody else was singing really bad (they were drunk i guess) and was singing annoying russian/finnish songs (duck and roll sarah!!*). and on one song (the backstreet boys one) the whole wission team danced while anneli sang, that was cool. then we got back to tallinn and went home. and now i'm home, and i'm tired, and...Cya.
*inside joke, don't ask. blue monkey rules!!!
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