New Orleans

Saturday
So, Saturday we left for New Orleans!!! It was AMAZING, but i'll start from the beginning. So, we left on Saturday around 8 in the morning, and listened to some amazing music on the way up...and yea. It took us a looooonng time to get there - but it was FUN. :D Then, that night, we went to Bourbon Street to witness and give out tracts. And we ate at this really good Gumbo place - i had a po boy - super good!! It was a very interesting experience - i saw things i've only seen in movies haha. But i was kinda disappointed in myself - I felt God tugging at me to go talk to this guy sitting on some steps outside a store on Bourbon street, but i didn't. And i don't know what could've happened if i would have actually listened. :(
After that, we got begneys at Cafe Du Monde (Amaazing) and then went back to the hotel and slept.
- Sunday
We got up, got all our stuff, and went to breakfast, and Kyle and James met us there (they drove up separately since kyle had to work). after that, we went to the Seminary College where we put all our stuff in the dorm rooms where we were staying through tues...and then went to the Seafaring Center. THere, we met some seafarers, and then started doing construction with James and Dave (SUPER cool guy) and Terrel. it was fuuunN!!! i got up on scaffolding and stuff. i felt tough ;) After that, we got lunch, and then dinner, and then went to the college, where we had a worship service and met other college students from Georgia and Tennessee. But...some of the guys started being jerks and talking smack about the other football teams, so that kind of alienated them from us. :( The girls and terrel talked to them for a while though. They were nice, just a lot quieter than our group lol :)
- Monday
Some of us went to paint, and some of us went to the Seafaring Center - I went to the Seafaring Center. This place was soooo cool - we got to use their kitchen and bake whatever we wanted, play games, do construction (funny story about that lol) and hang out. We met some seafarers, and they were all super nice! We sorted things, baked things....random stuff.
Then, we went and had dinner, hten went back to the center to hang out with more seafarers, and got to talk to some very interesting people. :)
Tuesday - We went back to the seafaring center/painting, and it was cooool - Anthony kept tracking dirt in lol - drove me and geny crayz because we were mopping haha. And then we went to the basketball court.
This was one of the most awesome times of the whole trip. seriously - i think did the most for God there than anywhere else (except for maybe painting). It was in an alright neighborhood (well, we thought at the time) and it was right next to the police station. We went and steve and kyle and terrel went out first to see if we could play basketball with the guys there ( all thug looking guys you know) and they said sure. So we all go over there, there's 2 little boys playing, and we play with them, and then we girls go prayer walking for a little bit, meet these two guys - David and Aber. They were intoxicated and more...but they really appreciated us coming out and just praying for them. It was cool. And then, we went back to the bball court, and just hung out with the guys. They were sooooo nice!!!! we had a blast with them - we were just telling them what we wanted to do with our lives, what tv shows we liked, what we liked to do...and then we started singing and then terrel and one of the guys started rapping. It was super cool!!
And then - Kyle and Dave were talking to this guy the whole time. HE ACCEPTED CHRIST!!!! :D PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pray for him though. i can't really mention his name either. He's in an EXTREMELY hard situation right now...probably one of the worst i've ever heard of in my life. He could be killed at any time. And pray for all the guys there - they're his boys, and they're all in hard situations that i couldn't even imagine being in. They don't know Christ though. If i would have known all these things i heard later, i would have been extremely scared to go to that basketball court. but God was with us the whole way, and it turned out soooo amazing. Just pray though. Pray like you've never prayed before for this guy. Seriously. Thanks.
Wednesday - we left New Orleans, and came home. And now i have to unpack lol. So that was the gist of the trip - there's a lot more stories of things that happened, but you'll just have to ask me. :)