Late recap

Hey everyone! I'm so sorry that i wasn't able to blog quite as much as I had hoped I would but I will share a day by day summary of what we did.
7/10
Today we got up a bit "later" than normal and went to Augusta Victoria hospital on the Mount of Olives. We began the day by picking up trash around the hospital grounds. We were joined by a youth from the Redeemer Lutheran Church in the Old city named Joudeh. We ended up having a competition to see who got the most interesting piece of trash. I found a doorknob, Scott found a DVD, there were in total 4 dirty diapers and 3 mismatched shoes. I think I won that competition, I mean who throws a doorknob out on the grounds of a hospital on the Mount of Olives? But anyways, after we had picked up about 13 bags of trash, we toured Augusta Victoria church and hospital. The church connected to the hospital is called the Church of the Ascencion. It is such a beautiful church. I was almost disapointed to find out that there was not a regular congregation that worshiped there. It was mainly used for confirmations, baptisms and weddings. The girls in our group have have made up our minds that we will have joint weddings at the Church of the Ascension. There is even a beautiful ball room connected to the church. Then we got a short tour of the hospital and an overview of who has donated what to the hospital. I did not realize this but Dr. Biden (Vice President Joe Biden's wife) recently visited Augusta Victoria and donated to the radiology unit at the hospital. For lunch we had dinner at Mark Brown's house and met some girls who were volunteers from a young adult group called YAGIM. Then we walked down the Mount of Olives. It was such a steep walk, I was thankful that we didn't have to walk up it. We also saw the Pater Nostrum church where Jesus first said the lords prayer. Then we saw some great views of the Dome of the Rock. On the side of the Mount of Olives, we saw a bunch of Jewish tombs. They pay millions of dollars to be buried there so when the Messiah comes to Jerusalem, they will be the first to be raised to heaven. Then we saw the Garden of Gethsemane and the Chruch of Nations. Then we walked back to the Old City and saw a part of the Via Dolorosa. The stations we saw were where Jesus recieved the crown of thorns and where He recieved the cross. Then we visited the Austrian Hostel. When we got back to the hotel, we had a visit from Bishop Younan the Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Jerusalem and the Holy Land. After our chat was over we hung out at the hotel.