A Prudent Day of Self Care

Being in SPIRITUS, we often get the question "Do you guys get any free time and if so what do you do?". Things to do around here are much different than what I have experienced from my last few years living in Portland, Oregon. Honestly though, nothing beats being in a beautiful community waking up every morning knowing that what you're doing has purpose by building God’s kingdom. However, even though we are extremely busy about once a week we do get a day we like to call our "prudent day of self care” a.k.a a "missionary’s day without a strict plan of where or what we need to be doing". On these days we like to do all kinds of different things but I think the majority would agree extra rest is a must.

We've had some pretty fun adventures on these days! I can’t lie,one of my favorite pastimes of SPIRITUS has been going to Culvers. As a native Southwestern Arizona girl I didn’t understand the marvels of a cheese curd and the exquisite taste of custard ice cream melting in my mouth!

#enoughsaid

Often one of the team members and I will go and hand out Divine Mercy cards and strike up conversations with the staff. Besides Culver’s though we often go on cool adventures to places like High Cliff for hiking or every now and then to a city.  On one occasion, half the team went to La Crosse, Wisconsin for Alexa's birthday, which was awesome! While we were there we went to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe! It was stunning and we even got to pray with a first class relic of St. Gianna Molla and St. Thérèse of Lisieux. During the day we also went up to the bluffs that overlooked all of La Crosse and you could even see three states from that spot! On our other prudent days of self care one of the main things a few of the team members and I do is go to the YMCA. Often we’ll work out but let’s be honest, most of the time we just love to use the hot tub because the winters here are FREEZING!

May God’s Blessings Be Poured More Abundantly Upon you!

In Christ,
Christen