Ryan
loves hanging with his missionary friends, but living as we do (out in the
middle of nowhere – hours from the nearest MK his age), he often longs for a
more active social life. So when the MKs
(missionary kids) get together it’s more quality time over quantity of time. One of the year’s highlights for Ryan (all my
kids for that matter) is our mission’s 5 day spiritual life retreat where they
can have hours and hours, days and days of pure fun with their closest
friends. This happens in July.
3
days after the retreat Ryan took off to attend Paraguayan youth camp, which he
loved. The camp is run by our mission
and several of our team mates attend each year to head up games, worship,
devotional thoughts, and just to be of general help.
After
the retreat Ryan didn’t come home. Instead,
he stayed at his friends’ house for a few days.
Our team mates had a household of boys: their own 3 boys, plus a
visiting high school student from the states, Ryan and another MK boy. It was at the end of that week that the boys
decided they needed even more guy time and planned a hiking trip.
Ryan
was home but a couple of days before we sent him to hike Paraguayan’s highest
peak and camp a couple nights with his buddies and two of his missionary
mentors. By the time we finally got Ryan
back under our roof, he was full of stories.
While
our house was absent of Ryan I really really missed him. Our missionary, homeschooling lifestyle puts
our family together 24/7. In case you
missed that – our family is always
together, so to have one gone seemed strange.
However, I am so thankful that we have awesome team mates who are
willing to invest in my son. One of the
blessings we have living on the mission field with such a great team mates is
that I don’t have to look far to find mighty men of God as mentors to pour into
Ryan’s life.
Paraguayan Youth Camp
2013 MK Adventure
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