It is often noted that missionaries do not do a good job of taking care of themselves. They get so busy taking care of others personal and spiritual lives that they neglect their own. With this in mind our team has implemented team retreats where we get away for a few days for some peace and quiet, some escape, some spiritual renewal, some vision brainstorming, and some good team fun time. We just had our first one of these and it was a huge success. I know we are not overwhelmingly busy in work right now but we sure are overwhelmed so this was just what we needed. Here are a few pictures to share our time and so you can be jealous of the beautiful location we went to.

View from our cabin

We had some good team time

We had some good quiet time

And we had some good nature time

We laughed at ourselves and the silly things we have done since being here with team awards

We attempted to go hiking in a national park nearby but it was too snowy on the road to get there

So we just enjoyed the snow around us and went for a little walk in it until we got too cold to go on

And we still got to see some pretty gorgeous views anyways