Greetings from Encounter Team 2. We have now been on the road for about 2 weeks and it has been amazing how much God has blessed our team already. All the host families we have stayed with have been so great to us, and everyday it just feels like we are continuing to be blessed wherever we go.
Since the great fun of training we went to Sudbury for our first retreats. Sudbury was very welcoming to us and as a team we got to go on a couple adventures. One of our adventures was being able to go and see the big nickel. I'm thinking its probably worth more than it appears and says, but in case I'm wrong, watch out when you ask for change.
The guys on our team stayed at an empty rectory just outside of Sudbury and, one day arriving back from a retreat, we saw four black bears. There were three cubs and a mother hanging out that got spooked off by our vehicle across the street and behind a fence. Trevor was able to go take some photos of the bears, and the mother bear challenged him sending him running back to our van. They were quite the sight to see.
We are now out in Thunder Bay staying with Bishop Colli. This is our first night at his place but it has been great getting to meet him and talk to him. Next week we will be Alberta-bound heading to our first Alberta retreat in Cold Lake.The day after we were told our teams, we had a great bonding day together. We were to build a tower out of noodles, marshmallows and tape. We made quite an impressive height and could have done better if we didn't run out of marshmallows but it was a great first day as a team.
Since the great fun of training we went to Sudbury for our first retreats. Sudbury was very welcoming to us and as a team we got to go on a couple adventures. One of our adventures was being able to go and see the big nickel. I'm thinking its probably worth more than it appears and says, but in case I'm wrong, watch out when you ask for change.
The guys on our team stayed at an empty rectory just outside of Sudbury and, one day arriving back from a retreat, we saw four black bears. There were three cubs and a mother hanging out that got spooked off by our vehicle across the street and behind a fence. Trevor was able to go take some photos of the bears, and the mother bear challenged him sending him running back to our van. They were quite the sight to see.While in Sudbury we went off to a high school football retreat to support the son of some of the people hosting the girls on our team. At the football game a girl saw us from the first retreat that we gave in Sudbury which was to a grade 12 class. Apparently she had wanted to contact us since but didn't have any idea how to reach us. She figured that we had already left Sudbury so was very surprised to turn around at the football game and see our team behind her. She told us how since the retreat she has been praying more to God and wanting to work on her relationship with Christ. It was a great gift to our team to see how much God has already been working.
That is all for now but I will keep you posted of what new and exciting things happen to our team in the next blog.
~Patrick
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