It has been quite the final full week here in Huancane. I can´t believe this time next week I will be home. It is very bitter sweet. I am definitley ready to see my family and friends especially baby Judah, but I am going to miss Peru and the people here that we have become so close to, so much has happened this week so here you go...
Tuesday, I finished reading Jungle Sunrise. It is such a great book, I highly recommend it. It is a quick read and definitley gives you insight in the life of a missionary in the Peruvian Jungle. I really enjoyed it. After reading we went to Ruban´s where they taught us how to make fluff balls. It was quite challenging task and let´s just say mine didn´t turn out quite as it should have haha. Luisa expressed how much she missed us while we were in Moho and said she got a taste of how it will be when we leave for good. This made us very sad to think about leaving Luisa and Ruban. Ruban taught Luisa how to play spoons so we have played with her quite a bit since being back from Moho. We then went and ate some lunch and then went to Mariela´s (a girl in our ESL adult class) and she let us see her pet monkies. that was really fun. We went to buy the monkey something to eat and I thought we would have gotten it a banana or something but instead Mariela got it a lollypop! I thought it was hilarious! We had a great time hanging out with Mariela and her pet monkey Jack. After hanging with them, I learned the prodigal son story for ESL kids class. Kids ESL class went great we sang, played bball review game, and I told the story and they all seemed very interested and listend very well. Ruban then came to us and told us how he had been praying and felt as though God was telling him to tell the prodigal son story. He didn´t even know that I had told it to the kids. We told him to go for it since it was what God was leading him to do. It was so awesome to see the holy spirit work and move.
Wednesday, Luisa made us chicken, vegetables and rice for lunch it was delicious! We then fixed her family poppy seed chicken for dinner before church. Ruban preached Tower of Bebel at church and it went well. We then played spoons with them after church and drank chocolatoda.
Thursday was very eventful! I woke up and made french toast for breakfast which was so good! Then we went to Juilica with Luisa. We bought a cake for Maggie´s birthday and some toys for the kids in ESL class. We then had parties for both of our ESL classes. The kids behaved so well and had a great time eating sweets, chips, and breaking pinuta. Andrea told the story of Jesus and the Little Children. WE pray that this sticks with them and they have learned how much Christ loves them.
The adult class was amazing! God truly worked and spoke through Ruban. He gave his testiomony, told the story of Paul and Silas, and also gave the Roman Road. It was truly powerful. Even though it was all in Spanish, I could feel the power of the holy spirit in the room. Luisa was tearing up while Ruban spoke. During his talk I could tell that Maggie and Andrea were praying just as hard as I was. After he was done talking he said he would give everyone a few minutes to think about what he said. When Ruban came back in Roger stood up. Maggie and I were unsure as to what was happening and then Ruban said ¨Si¨ and Roger said ¨Si¨. He wanted to have Christ as Savior. He had tears in his eyes and I had tears in mine. It was awesome! After him Mariela, Edgar, Gaby, and Gladys all said they had accepted Christ too. It was beautiful and super exciting! We all hugged and rejoiced with them! John came as well and talked with them more about their decisions and also helped nail down times for them to meet for more storying. I pray tat these continue to seek the Lord. We then ate spagetti which all the students loved! The boys had huge mountains of it on their plates it was awesome! They also loved the jello for dessert. It was an awesome day of the Lord and God moved in mighty ways!
Friday, we woke up and it was Maggie´s birthday. I made her french toast for breakfast and Andrea and I decorated her room in baloons and made a huge birthday card for her while she was in the shower. She laughed a lot when she saw it. We then went to Sonia´s and used the internet and phone so Maggie could talk to family and friends for her birthday. I uploaded a lot of pics on Friday so you should check them out. We then went to Rubans where we hung out and played cards with his family and Gaby from ESL class. Then John and Ruban went to Conima so we helped Luisa peel potatoes for Maggie´s bday lunch on Saturday. We then went and bought some more stuff for the lunch on Saturday, ate dinner, and then had cake and ice cream for Maggie´s bday. It was a blast.
Saturday, we woke up and I made french toast yet again haha. You can tell we are getting near the end because I am making the same food to try and get rid of our bread. I then heard Luisa knock on the door and I told her we would come help her cook at 9:30. I am very proud of my spanish communicating here lately. It only took me 2 months to be able to talk fairly well with people. So, then we went and helped her with the pototoes. She made 2 huuuuuuuuuge pans full and we took them across town in the Trice to put in a big oven. They cooked for 2 hours. We went back home to wait for them to cook and Luisa peeled apples and made fruit salad. Then we had an amazing birthday lunch for Maggie. We ate pork, fruit salad, potatoes, and spagetti. Then at 3:30 we went and babysat John and Sonia´s kids while they had a yard sale.
Today, we helped John and Sonia again sale their things. It was fairly successful since it as market day and everyone was out and about. We had quite a good time helping them out. After that we came and hung out with Mariela and Gaby. We ate ice cream and then helped the 2 of them get facebook. I have really enjoyed getting to know these girls and I pray that God continues to draw them to himself. They mentioned riding with us to Juilica on Wednesday when we leave. This made me sad, they said they were going to cry and we all know that me being my emotional self will cry too. We plan to hangout with Rosmmy today at 4:30 so that is good pray for this time as it will probably be our last time with her before we leave. She was sick last week so we havn´t seen her much lately.
Tomorrow and Tuesday we have debriefing with John, Sonia, the Moho team and The Conima Team. Then we leave on Wednesday for 3 days in Puno. We fly out of Juilica on Saturday and will be getting into Atlanta Sunday at 8:15 am.
Prayer Request--
-Our final days here
-Saying goodbye to the amazing people here, the great friends we have made
-Discipleship of the new believers that came to know the Lord on Thursday
-Traveling to Puno for our retreat
-Traveling HOME!
Well, I guess my next blog update will be when I get home on my own laptop! That is exciting!
I love you all and thank you for all your support, prayers, and encouragement while I have been here in Peru.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Adventures!
What a week!! I can´t believe that we only have one full week left here in Huancane! We are definitley making the most of it and taking it all in! God is continuning to do mighty things and we are just taking in all the last little bit of time we have left.
Tuesday the 13th, we took a restful morning. We def. needed it after our weekend at the compo and in Juilica and just visting with the Moho team while they were here in Huancane. We printed our certificates for ESL students which we will give them this week, pretty crazy our last 2 classes are this week. We have grown pretty attached to our students especially the teenagers in our adult class. They are all really starting to get involved in the Bible stories at the end and participating a lot. We are praying that their interest in the Lord continues after we leave and that they will hopefully want to continue to come to stories that Ruban does.
Wednesday, we went to Pastor Ruban´s wife Louisa´s Compo where she grew up and her parents still live. It was such a neat place. I will be posting the pictures on facebook as soon as I can. They live such a simple and beautiful life. Louisa showed us all around the compo and should us how they grow potatoes and raise sheep. We hiked the mountain right above her house! It was so much fun. I love hiking but especially love hiking with the HH CREW and Ruban and Louisa. We took so many photos and videos on our hike and just enjoyed God´s Creation. We saw beautiful views of Lake Titicaca! It was gorgeous. The hike down was a blast too. We ended up right in Louisa´s backyard it was really neat. Her dad showed us the house and he showed us his workshop and the kitchen. They cooked ¨dinner on the grounds¨ like they cooked for us at the church anniversory last Saturday. This time it had this ahi sause with it though and it was really good. I really liked it and I ate a lot of it. Ruban showed us around more and then it was time to go. This is when I started feeling sick. My mouth and face went numb and my hands. I also had a really bad headach. But I thought it would go away so I didn´t tell anyone until about half way on our walk to the lake. I was hurting so bad and I told them when we arrived at the lake I couldn´t remember their names or the name of the Lake which is so weeeeeeird! The girls took some pictures in boats by the lake but I felt so bad, I couldn´t go out with them. After they took some pictures we started our long walk home from the compo, we took a combi there but it is just luck to find one back. We kept praying for a bus or combi but we walked about an hour until one finally picked us up about 20 minutes from Huancane. We had had 2 buses, a combi, and an ambulance pass us until the one finally picked us up! Thank the Lord! The combi was already pretty packed but we fit so we got on in. Once we arrived back home I went to the bathroom and threw up a little. I guess it was about time for that to happen to me here. I then slept from 2pm to 6:30 am the next day. Maggie and Andrea gave me a powerade, bendryl and ib profin. The next day though I was good as new! Praise the Lord!!
Thursday, we went to Juilica again this time with Rosmmy. She really wanted to hangout with us so we said we would go with her. We rode the public bus which was pretty interesting in Juilica as well as helped her get some shoes in Topac. Our relationship with Rosmmy has gotten very strong and I pray that she will continue to seek the Lord when we leave. She gave the Bible Story on Tuesday at ESL class and did an awesome job. I could tell she put a lot of work into it and we were very proud of her. ESL classes went well on Thursday too. Louisa storied for the adults and did great. We played BINGO with both classes. The kids had a hard time but the adults really enjoyed it! We cooked pork chops, mac and cheese and broccoli for dinner! It was delicious American meal thank you GBC and GA BCM´s for all the great food we have had this summer!
Friday, I got up and had some awesome quiet time with the Lord. Then I called Sonia up to see if I could come use her phone to call the family and see what the news was with the Baby! It was great I was able to call and talk to Dad, Mom, Mary, and Clare and here all about my new nephew who was born at 9:30 Thursday. His name is Judah Patrick Pohl and he weighs 8lbs 2 oz! He is 21 inches long too!! We are all very excited and I definitely can´t wait to see him in person along with all of my family and friends at home in less then 2 weeks!! After chatting on the phone with the family and checking email we went and ate some lunch and then hung out with Louisa. We went and bought chicken for the cooking class that night and even was able to get it seasoned by our favorite chicken place here in town. It rained while we were out and about on Friday which is crazy! It has not rained all summer so it was a nice change for sure! We bought Tim and Jessica there bday presents and made homemade cards for them. We also had volley which was alot of fun. The girls Mariela, Gabbie and a new girl came out and they also stayed for cooking class. Louisa told the story of the women that was bleeding and Jesus healed her. We ate some delicious fried chicken and potatoes! Please continue to pray for these girls and that they will have personal relationships with Christ.
Saturday, we woke up and it was raining outside, strange again for this time of year here in Huancane. Ruban called and reserved seats for us for our bus ride to Moho and we waited for the bus for an hour. Finally at 10:30 am we caught the bus to Moho. We arrived in Moho and hour later and were very excited! We found out that we wouldn´t be going camping due to the weather, but we decided to go hiking instead. Maggie, Tim, Ruban, me, and 2 little Peruvian girls went rock climbing on the face of the mountain it was challenging and so fun! The view at the top was breath taking of all the mountains and Lake Titicaca. We took beautiful and fun pictures and spent some great time together with the Moho girls and Andrea when we all made it to the top. God was definitley there with us because it was raining everywhere else but on the mountain. He kept us all healthy too. We then went back to team Moho´s place (they stay at a Lutheren Compound) and rested. Then we built a fire and cooked hotdogs and smores which were so delicious even for being in Peru! We had a fun time celebrating Tim´s birthday. We also had great guitar music from both Jeremy L. and Tim. Some people began going to bed, but some Peruvian teens came out to our bonfire so we hung out with them some more. They got Tim a little gift too it was a cute little statue of a gringo haha. We then played cards, we played golf, kings corner, and spoons. We sang Happy Birthday to Tim and ate some great cupcakes the missionary Sonia made for us. We then went to the plaza where he ran up the Catholic Church steps while we hummed the ROCKY theme song. After that we all went to bed.
During the middle of the night, Maggie, Andrea and I were sleep on 2 twin beds and they broke, we about died laughing. It was interesting nights sleep that is for sure. We had a wonderful breakfast Sunday. Some of the Moho team and Andrea made French Toast and Eggs it was delicious. I am really starting to like eggs, I guess its a good thing haha! We then went around Moho´s Plaza for their market day and then went to the Luthern Church for service. Jeremy and Tim played a few songs and Jeremy spoke to the church. We then had lunch, some delicious spagetti and people used the phone and internet in the plaza. I decided to wait to get back to Huancane until using the internet since so many people were getting on. While everyone was out, I started reading the book Jungle Sunrise which is about missionaries in the Peruvian Jungle. It is so good and I only have a few chapters left in it! For dinner, we cooked fried chicken, green beans, salad, and mac and cheese it was really good! We tried to go to do a story with a family but the father was in Conima for work so we just went back and had some worship time as a group. Some young girls the Moho team has been ministering too were there for some of the worship time too, pray for these girls. They are only 10 and 11 and there living by themselves because their families have gone into the jungle to harvest coffee to provide for the family. They leave the girls alone to take care of themselves so they have been hanging out with the Moho team alot. Pray that the girls will be o.k. after the Moho team leaves Moho and that they will be protected and taking care of and that they may come to know the Lord.
Today, we got back on a bus for Huancane about 9 am in Moho. We took a day rest and unpacked from our time in Moho. Pray for our last week here. We have our last ESL classes and our last stories with them, one is the gospel message. Pray that God will prepapre the people for this message. Pray that we have a fruitful last week and that the believers will continue to be encouraged as it is our last week here. Pray that we will stay strong this last week and keep our focus.
I will leave you with 2 verses God put on my heart this week:
Deut. 20:30 ¨Love the Lord your God, Listen to his voice and hold fast to him¨
Samuel 22:29 ¨You are my lamp oh Lord, The Lord turns my darkness into light¨
Love you all and see you very soon!
Tuesday the 13th, we took a restful morning. We def. needed it after our weekend at the compo and in Juilica and just visting with the Moho team while they were here in Huancane. We printed our certificates for ESL students which we will give them this week, pretty crazy our last 2 classes are this week. We have grown pretty attached to our students especially the teenagers in our adult class. They are all really starting to get involved in the Bible stories at the end and participating a lot. We are praying that their interest in the Lord continues after we leave and that they will hopefully want to continue to come to stories that Ruban does.
Wednesday, we went to Pastor Ruban´s wife Louisa´s Compo where she grew up and her parents still live. It was such a neat place. I will be posting the pictures on facebook as soon as I can. They live such a simple and beautiful life. Louisa showed us all around the compo and should us how they grow potatoes and raise sheep. We hiked the mountain right above her house! It was so much fun. I love hiking but especially love hiking with the HH CREW and Ruban and Louisa. We took so many photos and videos on our hike and just enjoyed God´s Creation. We saw beautiful views of Lake Titicaca! It was gorgeous. The hike down was a blast too. We ended up right in Louisa´s backyard it was really neat. Her dad showed us the house and he showed us his workshop and the kitchen. They cooked ¨dinner on the grounds¨ like they cooked for us at the church anniversory last Saturday. This time it had this ahi sause with it though and it was really good. I really liked it and I ate a lot of it. Ruban showed us around more and then it was time to go. This is when I started feeling sick. My mouth and face went numb and my hands. I also had a really bad headach. But I thought it would go away so I didn´t tell anyone until about half way on our walk to the lake. I was hurting so bad and I told them when we arrived at the lake I couldn´t remember their names or the name of the Lake which is so weeeeeeird! The girls took some pictures in boats by the lake but I felt so bad, I couldn´t go out with them. After they took some pictures we started our long walk home from the compo, we took a combi there but it is just luck to find one back. We kept praying for a bus or combi but we walked about an hour until one finally picked us up about 20 minutes from Huancane. We had had 2 buses, a combi, and an ambulance pass us until the one finally picked us up! Thank the Lord! The combi was already pretty packed but we fit so we got on in. Once we arrived back home I went to the bathroom and threw up a little. I guess it was about time for that to happen to me here. I then slept from 2pm to 6:30 am the next day. Maggie and Andrea gave me a powerade, bendryl and ib profin. The next day though I was good as new! Praise the Lord!!
Thursday, we went to Juilica again this time with Rosmmy. She really wanted to hangout with us so we said we would go with her. We rode the public bus which was pretty interesting in Juilica as well as helped her get some shoes in Topac. Our relationship with Rosmmy has gotten very strong and I pray that she will continue to seek the Lord when we leave. She gave the Bible Story on Tuesday at ESL class and did an awesome job. I could tell she put a lot of work into it and we were very proud of her. ESL classes went well on Thursday too. Louisa storied for the adults and did great. We played BINGO with both classes. The kids had a hard time but the adults really enjoyed it! We cooked pork chops, mac and cheese and broccoli for dinner! It was delicious American meal thank you GBC and GA BCM´s for all the great food we have had this summer!
Friday, I got up and had some awesome quiet time with the Lord. Then I called Sonia up to see if I could come use her phone to call the family and see what the news was with the Baby! It was great I was able to call and talk to Dad, Mom, Mary, and Clare and here all about my new nephew who was born at 9:30 Thursday. His name is Judah Patrick Pohl and he weighs 8lbs 2 oz! He is 21 inches long too!! We are all very excited and I definitely can´t wait to see him in person along with all of my family and friends at home in less then 2 weeks!! After chatting on the phone with the family and checking email we went and ate some lunch and then hung out with Louisa. We went and bought chicken for the cooking class that night and even was able to get it seasoned by our favorite chicken place here in town. It rained while we were out and about on Friday which is crazy! It has not rained all summer so it was a nice change for sure! We bought Tim and Jessica there bday presents and made homemade cards for them. We also had volley which was alot of fun. The girls Mariela, Gabbie and a new girl came out and they also stayed for cooking class. Louisa told the story of the women that was bleeding and Jesus healed her. We ate some delicious fried chicken and potatoes! Please continue to pray for these girls and that they will have personal relationships with Christ.
Saturday, we woke up and it was raining outside, strange again for this time of year here in Huancane. Ruban called and reserved seats for us for our bus ride to Moho and we waited for the bus for an hour. Finally at 10:30 am we caught the bus to Moho. We arrived in Moho and hour later and were very excited! We found out that we wouldn´t be going camping due to the weather, but we decided to go hiking instead. Maggie, Tim, Ruban, me, and 2 little Peruvian girls went rock climbing on the face of the mountain it was challenging and so fun! The view at the top was breath taking of all the mountains and Lake Titicaca. We took beautiful and fun pictures and spent some great time together with the Moho girls and Andrea when we all made it to the top. God was definitley there with us because it was raining everywhere else but on the mountain. He kept us all healthy too. We then went back to team Moho´s place (they stay at a Lutheren Compound) and rested. Then we built a fire and cooked hotdogs and smores which were so delicious even for being in Peru! We had a fun time celebrating Tim´s birthday. We also had great guitar music from both Jeremy L. and Tim. Some people began going to bed, but some Peruvian teens came out to our bonfire so we hung out with them some more. They got Tim a little gift too it was a cute little statue of a gringo haha. We then played cards, we played golf, kings corner, and spoons. We sang Happy Birthday to Tim and ate some great cupcakes the missionary Sonia made for us. We then went to the plaza where he ran up the Catholic Church steps while we hummed the ROCKY theme song. After that we all went to bed.
During the middle of the night, Maggie, Andrea and I were sleep on 2 twin beds and they broke, we about died laughing. It was interesting nights sleep that is for sure. We had a wonderful breakfast Sunday. Some of the Moho team and Andrea made French Toast and Eggs it was delicious. I am really starting to like eggs, I guess its a good thing haha! We then went around Moho´s Plaza for their market day and then went to the Luthern Church for service. Jeremy and Tim played a few songs and Jeremy spoke to the church. We then had lunch, some delicious spagetti and people used the phone and internet in the plaza. I decided to wait to get back to Huancane until using the internet since so many people were getting on. While everyone was out, I started reading the book Jungle Sunrise which is about missionaries in the Peruvian Jungle. It is so good and I only have a few chapters left in it! For dinner, we cooked fried chicken, green beans, salad, and mac and cheese it was really good! We tried to go to do a story with a family but the father was in Conima for work so we just went back and had some worship time as a group. Some young girls the Moho team has been ministering too were there for some of the worship time too, pray for these girls. They are only 10 and 11 and there living by themselves because their families have gone into the jungle to harvest coffee to provide for the family. They leave the girls alone to take care of themselves so they have been hanging out with the Moho team alot. Pray that the girls will be o.k. after the Moho team leaves Moho and that they will be protected and taking care of and that they may come to know the Lord.
Today, we got back on a bus for Huancane about 9 am in Moho. We took a day rest and unpacked from our time in Moho. Pray for our last week here. We have our last ESL classes and our last stories with them, one is the gospel message. Pray that God will prepapre the people for this message. Pray that we have a fruitful last week and that the believers will continue to be encouraged as it is our last week here. Pray that we will stay strong this last week and keep our focus.
I will leave you with 2 verses God put on my heart this week:
Deut. 20:30 ¨Love the Lord your God, Listen to his voice and hold fast to him¨
Samuel 22:29 ¨You are my lamp oh Lord, The Lord turns my darkness into light¨
Love you all and see you very soon!
Monday, July 12, 2010
Important Events that I forgot
So, I know you are all going to think it is crazy that I am posting two days in a row. This is a rareity for me to be able to get on 2 days in a row. But, we had some free time and a busy week ahead so the roomies and I decided to go ahead and come out to the internet cafe tonight.
Some important events that happened that I forgot to write in my last post:
Last Saturday and this Saturday we got to experience the COMPO Life. The Compo is the little communities on the outskirts of Huancane. Last Saturday we went to a community for church service. The church in this community was started a few years ago by another missionary named Rick. It was a fast rapidly growing church, but lately it has gone down hill. Some of the people have gone back to their fiesta ways and others have gotten involved in a cult group so please be praying for this community. When we went there were only 2 people at the church service a father and son. This community needs a great deal of prayer.
The other community we went to this past Saturday was on the opposite side of the mountain here in Huancane. It was the church´s 5th anniversory which is a big deal in Peru. The worship service had about 15 belivers at it which was awesome. It was very long! It lasted 5 hours they sang pretty much all of the songs in their native language Aymara which is very challenging to sing for us English speakers. They also had 4 speakers so it was pretty long. Then after the service we had ¨dinner on the grounds¨. This is where they bring in boiled potatoes and beans. It was pretty good especially since the service was 5 hours and we were all very hungry!!
We had a blast this weekend hanging out with the Moho Team. They are such a lively bunch and we love just spending some relaxing time with them. We watched Lord of the Rings with them and played volleyball with them and Pastor Ruban and Louisa. It was a blast!
Today we went to Juilica with the Moho team and Pator Ruban and Louisa! We had such a blast and quite the little adventure. We helped the Moho Team buy some presents for family back home and we bought a cake for Maggie, Tim and Jessica´s birthdays. We ate at a pretty fancy resteruant and then got to eat the cake for the Birthday it was a blast! I got to eat lasagna and just had a really fun day!!
Thank you all for your support, prayers and encouragement they mean so much!!
Some important events that happened that I forgot to write in my last post:
Last Saturday and this Saturday we got to experience the COMPO Life. The Compo is the little communities on the outskirts of Huancane. Last Saturday we went to a community for church service. The church in this community was started a few years ago by another missionary named Rick. It was a fast rapidly growing church, but lately it has gone down hill. Some of the people have gone back to their fiesta ways and others have gotten involved in a cult group so please be praying for this community. When we went there were only 2 people at the church service a father and son. This community needs a great deal of prayer.
The other community we went to this past Saturday was on the opposite side of the mountain here in Huancane. It was the church´s 5th anniversory which is a big deal in Peru. The worship service had about 15 belivers at it which was awesome. It was very long! It lasted 5 hours they sang pretty much all of the songs in their native language Aymara which is very challenging to sing for us English speakers. They also had 4 speakers so it was pretty long. Then after the service we had ¨dinner on the grounds¨. This is where they bring in boiled potatoes and beans. It was pretty good especially since the service was 5 hours and we were all very hungry!!
We had a blast this weekend hanging out with the Moho Team. They are such a lively bunch and we love just spending some relaxing time with them. We watched Lord of the Rings with them and played volleyball with them and Pastor Ruban and Louisa. It was a blast!
Today we went to Juilica with the Moho team and Pator Ruban and Louisa! We had such a blast and quite the little adventure. We helped the Moho Team buy some presents for family back home and we bought a cake for Maggie, Tim and Jessica´s birthdays. We ate at a pretty fancy resteruant and then got to eat the cake for the Birthday it was a blast! I got to eat lasagna and just had a really fun day!!
Thank you all for your support, prayers and encouragement they mean so much!!
Sunday, July 11, 2010
VBS and More
This week we woke up and had VBS Tuesday thru Friday at a local preschool here in Huancane. It was a great experience. During one of the times we were there out singing Christian Kid songs, God showed me how unique and awesome of an experience it was to be there. You definitley could not go into a public preschool in the states and have a VBS and share the love of Christ. What an opportunity. We had a great time singing and doing crafts with them each day. School here in Peru is a lot different then in the states. The teachers do not have much classroom management so the kids basically do what they want in the classroom, so let´s just say that was a little different then when I student taught in the states. We had a blast though and I think they learned some Bible stories and were able see the love of God in us. At the end of the week the director of the school had a meeting with us and told us how thankful he was that we came and shared with the kids. He said every kid deserves to decide their own faith. So, that was really neat to here. He was very encouraging and I think we also made a big impact on the teachers there, they all told us how thankful they were that we came.
Other than VBS we had our ESL classes on Tuesday and Thursday. They are going really well and everyone seems to be opened more and more to the Bible Story we tell at the end. Continue to pray for these classes. We only have 4 left which is crazy and we would love for the people here to want to know more and more about our Savior.
I am continually thankful for the opportunities God keeps bringing our way to share with people. The relationships we have built are getting stronger and stronger. People sure love cooking for us! Rosmmy´s mom cooked Lomo for us on Tuesday for lunch and Louisa cooked Chicken soup for us for dinner on Monday. We also had a bonfire after dinner with Ruban and Louisa in which we showed them how to cook smores! It was awesome! I love bonfires, smores, my roomies, and Peruvians! We also had delicious chocolatada with our smores! Louisa also cooked Lomo for us on Friday and we babysat for the missionaries that night so they could go out for a night without the kiddos.
Well, it has been another great week in Peru. VBS was great and ESL classes are going well!
Love yáll!
Prayer Request-
-We stay focused for the last 2 weeks of our ministry
-Last ESL Classes
-Continue to encourage believers here
-Continue to build relationships with nonbelievers here
-Everyone stays healthy
Other than VBS we had our ESL classes on Tuesday and Thursday. They are going really well and everyone seems to be opened more and more to the Bible Story we tell at the end. Continue to pray for these classes. We only have 4 left which is crazy and we would love for the people here to want to know more and more about our Savior.
I am continually thankful for the opportunities God keeps bringing our way to share with people. The relationships we have built are getting stronger and stronger. People sure love cooking for us! Rosmmy´s mom cooked Lomo for us on Tuesday for lunch and Louisa cooked Chicken soup for us for dinner on Monday. We also had a bonfire after dinner with Ruban and Louisa in which we showed them how to cook smores! It was awesome! I love bonfires, smores, my roomies, and Peruvians! We also had delicious chocolatada with our smores! Louisa also cooked Lomo for us on Friday and we babysat for the missionaries that night so they could go out for a night without the kiddos.
Well, it has been another great week in Peru. VBS was great and ESL classes are going well!
Love yáll!
Prayer Request-
-We stay focused for the last 2 weeks of our ministry
-Last ESL Classes
-Continue to encourage believers here
-Continue to build relationships with nonbelievers here
-Everyone stays healthy
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Muy Facil
I titled this weeks blog entry ¨Muy Facil¨ because that has been the phrase that Pastor Ruban uses all the time when we missionary girls think that something he does is hard, He will just so oh no its ¨muy facil¨ which means very easy is in Spanish.
It has been such a fun and eventful week!
Monday was not the greatest, I got some stomach bug and fever so that was not cool. I was in bed all morning pretty sick. But, I have the most amazing roomies who took care of me got me some medicine and Pastor Ruban came and prayed for me. I got to see how much the people around me care for me and love me. I am thankful for them, as I said in my last post.
Tuesday, I was feeling a lot better. We had our ESL classes. It was a fiesta day which means people pretty much don´t do anything and just party instead. The kids don´t have school and people close their stores and businesses. This has happened pretty much every week since we have been here. There will be one day when there is some kind of fiesta they have to celebrate. So, needless to say we had 3 kids in ESL class and about 6 adults. We still had a great time though.
Thursday, we went to Juilica with Pastor Ruban and Louisa. They helped us buy VBS crafts for our VBS that will be this week and end of the semester party things for our last ESL classes. We decided for our last classes that we will have a fun little celebration for them. We are going to cook some American Food and have a Pinuta. While we were in Juilica we also stopped at this awesome pastry-bakery place and had some awesome pastries it was delicious! We also found an awesome cake place where will get a birthday cake from in a few weeks for Maggie, Tim and Jessica´s Birthdays. We enjoyed spending time with Ruban and Louisa they have been such a blessing to us. We had ESL classes too on Thursday and they went really well we came up with a fun game to teach fruits which was kinda like musical chairs.
Friday, we had a volleyball outreach and we had invited our ESL students but none of them showed up. But God is faithful and he brought out tons of others who really wanted to play with us! We had a great time and were able to meet new people that we can hopefully continue to build relationships with these last couple of weeks. We also got to drive Pastor Rubans dad´s trice around a little bit. That was a lot of fun and there are videos of this on facebook!
Saturday, we hung out at Ruban´s and started making our own projects which we are excited about. I also helped Jeremy teach some English to a family. We also had a women´s outreach. We did a cooking class with them and taught them how to make banana pudding! They loved it! After cooking we were also able to share a women´s Bible story that they all enjoyed! It was a great and successful outreach. One of the girls from our ESL class came to the cooking class and then stayed for the church service after. We also got to watch Pride and Prejudice with the Conima team who is town for the weekend. It was a nice treat to be able to kick back and watch a movie again. Especially one that us girls are so fond of ;)
Sunday, was 4th of July and it was a blast! We had quite a 4th of July even though we were in Peru. WE woke up to the Moho team singing Patriotic songs outside our door letting us know that they had arrived. We then spent the morning with them shopping in the market. Around noon, we had lunch at John and Sonia´s house. They grilled out hamburgers and made beans and salsa dip. We also had apple pie and chocolote peanut butter cookies. Us Huancane girls made banana pudding for everyone as well. We then played American Games. We did Team Georgia against Team Texas. We had potato sack race (which I particpated in), frozen t-shirt, bobbing for apples, clothes put on, manderine challenge, and cracker eating contest. It was a blast and ended up being a tie so we did an egg drop from the hostile roof. Then we still tied because neither egg broke, so then the 2nd tie breaker was an egg toss which team GA won!! Yeah, we represented. There will be pictures and videos on facebook soon! We are also planning on shooting off some fireworks tonight that we got here! Very Excited about this too!
Well it has been an awesome week! The Moho team went back to Moho today and the Conima team will leave tomorrow! Thanks for all your prayers and support! Happy 4th of July!
Love you all!
Prayer Request
-Pray for the relationships we have built with non believers that they will continue to grow and we can share more with them.
-Pray for our health. Many people have been getting stomach bugs lately.
-Pray for ESL classes
-Pray for our sports outreaches
-VBS starts this week (although we don´t have it on Monday because school is closed for a fiesta) Pray that we will be able to have it at the preschool this week and they will not decide to take the week off of school for fiestas or protests.
It has been such a fun and eventful week!
Monday was not the greatest, I got some stomach bug and fever so that was not cool. I was in bed all morning pretty sick. But, I have the most amazing roomies who took care of me got me some medicine and Pastor Ruban came and prayed for me. I got to see how much the people around me care for me and love me. I am thankful for them, as I said in my last post.
Tuesday, I was feeling a lot better. We had our ESL classes. It was a fiesta day which means people pretty much don´t do anything and just party instead. The kids don´t have school and people close their stores and businesses. This has happened pretty much every week since we have been here. There will be one day when there is some kind of fiesta they have to celebrate. So, needless to say we had 3 kids in ESL class and about 6 adults. We still had a great time though.
Thursday, we went to Juilica with Pastor Ruban and Louisa. They helped us buy VBS crafts for our VBS that will be this week and end of the semester party things for our last ESL classes. We decided for our last classes that we will have a fun little celebration for them. We are going to cook some American Food and have a Pinuta. While we were in Juilica we also stopped at this awesome pastry-bakery place and had some awesome pastries it was delicious! We also found an awesome cake place where will get a birthday cake from in a few weeks for Maggie, Tim and Jessica´s Birthdays. We enjoyed spending time with Ruban and Louisa they have been such a blessing to us. We had ESL classes too on Thursday and they went really well we came up with a fun game to teach fruits which was kinda like musical chairs.
Friday, we had a volleyball outreach and we had invited our ESL students but none of them showed up. But God is faithful and he brought out tons of others who really wanted to play with us! We had a great time and were able to meet new people that we can hopefully continue to build relationships with these last couple of weeks. We also got to drive Pastor Rubans dad´s trice around a little bit. That was a lot of fun and there are videos of this on facebook!
Saturday, we hung out at Ruban´s and started making our own projects which we are excited about. I also helped Jeremy teach some English to a family. We also had a women´s outreach. We did a cooking class with them and taught them how to make banana pudding! They loved it! After cooking we were also able to share a women´s Bible story that they all enjoyed! It was a great and successful outreach. One of the girls from our ESL class came to the cooking class and then stayed for the church service after. We also got to watch Pride and Prejudice with the Conima team who is town for the weekend. It was a nice treat to be able to kick back and watch a movie again. Especially one that us girls are so fond of ;)
Sunday, was 4th of July and it was a blast! We had quite a 4th of July even though we were in Peru. WE woke up to the Moho team singing Patriotic songs outside our door letting us know that they had arrived. We then spent the morning with them shopping in the market. Around noon, we had lunch at John and Sonia´s house. They grilled out hamburgers and made beans and salsa dip. We also had apple pie and chocolote peanut butter cookies. Us Huancane girls made banana pudding for everyone as well. We then played American Games. We did Team Georgia against Team Texas. We had potato sack race (which I particpated in), frozen t-shirt, bobbing for apples, clothes put on, manderine challenge, and cracker eating contest. It was a blast and ended up being a tie so we did an egg drop from the hostile roof. Then we still tied because neither egg broke, so then the 2nd tie breaker was an egg toss which team GA won!! Yeah, we represented. There will be pictures and videos on facebook soon! We are also planning on shooting off some fireworks tonight that we got here! Very Excited about this too!
Well it has been an awesome week! The Moho team went back to Moho today and the Conima team will leave tomorrow! Thanks for all your prayers and support! Happy 4th of July!
Love you all!
Prayer Request
-Pray for the relationships we have built with non believers that they will continue to grow and we can share more with them.
-Pray for our health. Many people have been getting stomach bugs lately.
-Pray for ESL classes
-Pray for our sports outreaches
-VBS starts this week (although we don´t have it on Monday because school is closed for a fiesta) Pray that we will be able to have it at the preschool this week and they will not decide to take the week off of school for fiestas or protests.
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