This weekend groups from two campuses met together for a retreat. Not everyone could make it, but we ended up with about twenty students that made the trip across town to study the Good Book and play.
Fun Fact: When students want to hang out the word they use translates to "play" so I often get messages asking if I want to play. Like.
I would say that close to half of the students that came weren't believers and most that were, are less than 6 months old. When your audience knows so little about the Good Book it's difficult to decide what is the most important things to teach so we themed it around the greatest commandment. Love the Father and love people. One of our co-workers was kind enough to do the teaching in Chinese which was really great. Although we have been studying for a year and a half we still aren't proficient enough to do lead groups like this, so we are thankful when the students are able to hear the Father's word in their own language.
The retreat was a slumber party at the apartment of our volunteers.
Here we are doing some morning calisthenics. I don't know why we did this.
Nora has been out going to groups almost every night this week plus this crazy retreat. She is a champion of babies. Here we are eating lunch on the bus.
After the sessions we headed out to play at the park by the lake.
It was a beautiful Saturday and there were tons of people out playing and flying kites. It's fairly common for Nora to draw crowds of strangers. Sometimes we stop and talk to someone on the street and five minutes later there are fifteen people standing around. Last week someone tried to feed her a strawberry. Seriously, people she's not a pet monkey.
Gotta watch out for pick pocketers. It's always the ones you least expect.
This one's just cause she's a cutie face.
Teaching football to a group of college students that have no basic understanding of the game. Harder than you would think.
Typical Chinese grandma.
China is such an interesting mix of the past and the modern.
Oh look, here's another cutie face.
To most of you this may look like just your average mini van, and you would be right, but to us this picture represented a day of independence and freedom! We have traveled to many a Chinese city, but a couple weeks ago we took our first road trip in a year and a half and it was awesome! The seven of us piled in a friends borrowed mini van and away we went. The drive was only about an hour and a half but in true road trip fashion we brought along plenty of snacks and music, and stopped at a rest stop along the way. Usually traveling includes lots of taxis, trains, pushing through crowds, bad smells etc. but this was amazing! I felt like a teenager riding in a car without adults for the first time. 
After the park we ate some Korean BBQ with friends. Nora is only two months older than their kiddo, but I had already forgotten how little and floppy she used to be. 
