2 Weeks Tomorrow

2 weeks tomorrow since I left the states for Peru. I am so grateful that God has brought me here and provided me with the opportunity to serve him here. This week has been quite eventful.

Andrea, Maggie and I started off the week by advertising for our ESL classes. We passed on flyers in the Sunday Market which is when everyone from Huancane and surrounding towns come out to sale things. The town is crazy but full of so much life on Sundays!

Monday we spent the morning with the missionary, Sonia, and her boys Jacob and Samuel. Jacob is almost 2 and Samuel is 3 and a half and he goes to preschool here in Huancane 3 times a week and Sonia also homes schools him. All of the schools had a parade on Monday because it was Flag Day in Peru. It was really intersting to see how much the people love parades here. We spent the afternoon studying our Spanish stories.

Tuesday we played basketball with some local boys and were able to start building a relationship with them. It was so fun even though I am not the best basketball player we were able to hang out with them and have a blast.

Wednesday we helped Sonia prepare for the medical team to arrive. We helped her make 50 sandwhiches and the med team was very appreciative to have American like lunches on Thursday and Friday.

Thursday we helped with the med clinic in a town called Patascachi. In January Patascachi was covered in water and over 500 families lost everything in a flood. So we had a med clinic for them with a team in Georgia. I worked in the eye clinic yesterday, and many of the people just wanted glasses just because, many of them had perfect eyes but just thought the glasses were cool and well probably never had glasses before so they wanted them really bad. We gave out tons of sunglasses to the people who didn´t need eye glasses but then when we ran out of those the people just wanted real eye glasses even if they didn´t need them. So needless to say it became a little crazy near the end of the day. We felt as though many of them were pertending to have eye problems just to get some glasses. We tried to explain to them that it would make their eyes worse but they didn´t understand. I couldn´t blame them for wanted the glasses since they thought they were neat and never had them before. So, I came to the conclusion the best way to show them Christ´s love was to just give them to them anyway. SO be praying they end up not liking the glasses so their eyes don´t go bad.

Today, we ran out of glasses so I just hung out with the kids and played with them. I played some soccer with them and also taught a cute group of little girls how to play frisbee. I am glad that I was able to be used by God even though I don´t have medical skills.

Prayer Request--
-The med team leaves tomorrow to go back to GA
-ESL class sign ups tomorrow
-Memeorizes Spanish Bible Story

I love you so much!