A couple of times this story I've told about what happened while I was on my first mission trip (which was just June of this year
) has made me go aww, and it will probably make you go aww too.
I was on a mission trip in Cincinnati as some of you may know.
Well, on the next to last day of the mission trip, we were walking around when my flip-flops broke as I was going into this whole presentation thing. And I tried everything to fix this flip-flop. From duct-tape (we were making duct tape wallets) to super strong glue. It didn't hold. And I had to walk on 100-degree pavement (not exaggerating...it was 85-90 degrees out that day. So one could only imagine how much hotter the pavement was under the sun.) to walk into this worship session. As we were walking to it, I teased earlier to one of the guys I started to get to know a little better (one of those things where I knew of him but didn't really know him. Him and I are pretty good friends now, though.
) and become friends with him, and said, "This is why you bring an extra pair of flip-flops." and he looks at the flip-flop, raises his eyebrows, looks at me and smiles warmly and laughs a little bit and told me about how that happened to him recently at his college orientation (he just graduated high-school).
But yeah, walking on hot pavement barefoot when you don't really walk barefoot HURT. BAD. >.<
So we went into the worship session, prayed, was given some awesome words of encouragement...but still was shoeless at the very end of it, even though I was also asking God what to do and hoping someone would help me out somehow. Because no one had an extra pair of shoes or anything. Or so I thought...
As I was walking out, I was REALLY praying, and was praying, "God, I REALLY don't wanna walk on that hot pavement again...what am I supposed to do??" and you know what happens?
The same guy I talked to earlier, joking on why you bring an extra pair of flip-flops, approaches me as I was walking out the door saying, "Hey, I just realized this, but I have an extra pair of flip-flops in my backpack if you want them."
In my head I was going all ":O AWW!! He is SO SWEET!!" and I said to him, extremely surprised, "Yeah, sure, if you want to." and he said, "Okay, I'll go get them." and got them, gave them to me saying, "They're probably gonna be a little bit big." and I laughed saying, "Yeah, probably." but not minding at all. and he set them down and took the other flip-flop that wasn't broken and put it in his backpack haha (though when we got back to our host home, since we didn't stay in hotels, that he could go ahead and throw that one away since I threw the broken one away earlier as we were heading out of the worship session lol).
And later that night before we all headed off to go get ready for bed and stuff he told me that I could use his extra pair of flip-flops if I wanted to or needed to
which I did since we did a car-wash haha.
I told some of the youth group girls what he did and they all went "Aaaawwww!!
" hahaha! Typical girl
But other than that...guys with puppies/cute animals and babies make me go aww. LOL