The last day that we spent in Hays became known as our "led by the Spirit day." Basically, if anything came up during the week that we would need more time doing was reserved for Thursday. After a long day in the basement on Wednesday, we knew that we would need part of Thursday to finish things up. So on top of several more Walmart runs that day (we went there a lot during the week), we finished up the basement.
During the morning we finished painting all of the doors (changing them from a pale pink to white), touching up any white spots left on the walls, putting all of the furniture back (rearranging some of it), putting the office back together (including building a new book case for the office), and cleaning up the entire basement. There was a planned second family dinner that night along with a time of hanging out and sharing what God had done during the week with the Challenge students that night. This celebration was to take place in the basement, which meant that we had to get it done. By 5:00 we were done, which meant that we spent 2 days on the project, but it was a lot of fun and great to see it all come together.
That afternoon, we had two less members working, for two girls out of group went back to campus. One of them had met a nonbeliever on the floor of the dorm she was staying in. This girl wanted to talk to someone about the gospel and Christianity. So she spent most of the afternoon with this girl and one of her roommates. The other member of our team was with them some, and then spent a lot of time in prayer for them. It was great to see God working even in the final hours of our time in Hays.
So by supper time, we had accomplished a lot during the day, and it was time to spend our last night with Challenge. Everyone came back over to Carin's house for a Vietnamese dinner. I am picky about my food, but am usually willing to try new foods. I cannot say that I love this food choice, but I did find some food that was not too bad to eat. Even so, it was a great time to hang out with everyone, closing out the week. After supper we went down to the basement, and the Challenge students love the new look. It was neat for us to see people in the basement hanging out, the people were the final dimension of our project. It was good to see it all complete. We spent time talking about the week, what God had done, what God had taught us. We then spent some time in prayer as a large group, and then it was time to leave.
However, we discovered that we had one last project to take care of before we called it a night. Crosspoint had a planned Easter egg hunt on Saturday and needed help stuffing a bunch of eggs. So we went with several of the Challenge students to the church to help fill over 800 eggs. We then played one last game and left. We went to Burger King to write some thank you notes for all of our hosts, who really did sacrifice a lot for us during that week. I cannot imagine hosting someone for an entire week. I have done it for a weekend before, and although it is fun, it does mess up your normal routine. I am so thankful for all the students who took the time to host us. We then filled up the gas tank (for we were almost on empty), so that we could head out early the next morning, and went back to campus.
Our time in Hays was over, but the trip itself was not. We still had one day left, the trip home. It was the day that I probably expected the least out of. But I was so wrong, for God had something bigger planned. Last year the trip home was more exciting than expected for we ran into a snow storm. This year it was a little different, but I will have to get to that story tomorrow.
Matt
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