ECUADOR!!!!!!!!: To sum up my first team that came...

...it was FREAKING awesome!

Man, Steve the Pirate and I (Steve the Pirate = my pareja, or partner, and also the guy that I have been working with this whole time... his real name is M

att Smith, but there is another Matt Smith, and now this is going to be a more infrequent sequence of typing because my 11 month year old friend Parish DeVries just woke up and I have to entertain her so that she won't cry.)

This is what Parish had to say:

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and here is a tribute to Parish, the greatest baby I know right now:

But, to continue on to all of the FPC mission that just left today at 4AM!!... This group was AMAZING! Really great.

We had...

the fearless leaders: Mark, Trey and Linda!!! Everything would have gone HORRIBLY wrong without them. And, it would not have been nearly as fun or great or anything that is good. Then we had 16 of the coolest graduated seniors from high school I had ever met. I was pretty unfamiliar with this group considering that they are from my church. But, man, everyone that didn't know each other that well in the beginning got to know each other. People that may not have been friends became great friends. It was like the ending to a good book, BUT better. The last night every single one of the "kids" (they aren't kids... but for lack of a better word) declared what they were turning their page from... for example, I think I am turning the page from observing to taking action. That is what each of the graduated seniors did. I am super SUPER duper impressed by all of them. There is no way I can put everything I want to about this group on the blog. So, here are pictures: