Hello all! This past week has been so awesome! We continued working with the ywam Denver team and started off with cleaning up the fort above the city. It was sooo full of trash, and the group of us, including the Gubler family (our base leaders), were able to clean up almost 15 bags of trash. The difference is amazing! While we were up there two students who run the networking for Bosnia's top internet magazine were there chatting with our team members and took pictures! They are writing a story about us and what our teams are doing in the city. That was a pretty cool connection.
For the rest of the week we were in the residential part of the city. For three days we hung out at the park all afternoon playing frisbee, soccer, and doing crafts with the kids there! It was so fun to be able to just hang out with the kids and show them that we are care about them! Some kids challenged us "Americans" to a soccer game which we lost on the first day by one point. The second day we won which raised all our spirits! These kids were 12-15 and unreal at soccer. This was no child's play. I have some gnarly turf burn and blisters from burnt feet from the hot ground. Good times playing with children. Every morning before we went to the park we had a worship time with both teams and God consistently showed up. One morning he put it on our hearts to pray for each other, ask for prophetic words etc and it was amazing! My favourite thing about this place is how easy it is to pick out what God is doing.
We were also able to have some ywamer bonding time last weekend. Both teams, our base leaders, and our ywam contacts from sarajevo all hit the local pool to have way too much fun. We didn't even get called out by the lifeguard which was a miracle in itself!
The ywam Denver team left on Friday morning and our team is now preparing to leave to Croatia for a couple weeks of debrief and ministry. We have an apartment by the sea and are looking forward to hopefully some warm weather, meeting some new friends, and bringing God and his amazing character along the way! Our time in Sarajevo has been life changing to say the least. It really changed my outlook on who God is, how he shows up, and how powerful he really is! I'm so thankful for everyone's prayers and support. I miss home a lot, but I am so thankful for the amazing opportunities and adventures I am having.
Much love, Nick
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