Chicago

Dear Readers,
Thank you for your prayers. The weekend in Chicago was amazing, and our team learned a lot. It turned out that Devin, one of the boys in my group, was sick with flu-like symptoms on friday, so he stayed back in wheaton, while Chris, Stephanie, and I went to our hostel on the north side of chicago. The hostel was an international hostel with hundreds of rooms and a few lounges on the first floor, where we spent a lot of time talking to people. The first night we met a few people and Chris had a really good conversation with a Christian woman and man. Surprisingly, about 1/3 of the people we met were Christians. Saturday night I made spaghetti (can you believe it! i didnt burn anything!) for my group and about 5 others who ended up eating with us. People who were cooking in the kitchen sat down with us too, and we ended up at the table talking for several hours. I talked to people from australia, england, ireland, alaska, and zimbabwe. One guy that we talked to for a long time was from Holland, he was a christian who had just moved to the states a few weeks before. He was really nice, and ended up going to church with us the next day (this morning) at moody church.
All in all, it was a great weekend, we had a few really good conversations despite prior apprehensiveness, and grew together as a team and in the Lord. One of my favorite memories was praying before our meal in the hostel with people from all over the place. God has surely blessed us.