28 days later.

i know that it's been a while since i've written. it's hard to keep up. everyday goes by so fast and then they just all start adding up. its crazy to think that i've already been here for 4 weeks. 

let's see, what's happened since i last wrote. last week we had Daniel teaching all week. He was really intense, and has powerful prayers. everyday at the end of class he would pray for at least 40 minutes about whatever subject he talked about that day, and he would pray over everyone and over specific people. there was a lot of crying and things like that. on wednesday he talked about spiritual warfare, which was pretty heavy, and on thursday and friday he talked about blessings and curses, which was also intense. on friday he prayed over me, and for things that i didn't even realize i had in my life. and he prayed for blessings over me. that was really cool, and different than anything else that i've ever experienced. 

On saturdays we have evangelism, it's either in the morning or at night. and last week we had evangelism at 11 and went to the outdoor market and just talked to different people and invited them to super saturday. at the base every saturday they have this thing called super saturday and it's free workshops. they offer dance, soccer, aerobics, theatre, music, guitar, english, and some other things, and its completely free every saturday, and they have a pool here which is really rare to have so they let everyone go swimming at the end, except the pool doesn't open til october 25 because it's still a little cold here. so we invited people to that and then also had the chance to talk to them about Jesus. It was hard for me cause I went in a group with two spanish speakers, so i was a little lost for some of the time. then that night a bunch of us went into town and got empanadas and just hung around. that was fun, because we don't usually get a lot of free time at night. 

On sunday nights we all go to church. we are split up into three different groups. my group goes to the biggest church of the three and our church probably has about 12 to 15 other people besides our group (and our group is about 10 people). so the churches here are really small, and the service lasts for about 2 1/2 hours usually. last week it was only an hour and a half and it was a nice surprise, haha. but the worship band at the church i go to is awesome. there's an old man bass player, a girl about my age who plays the keyboard (and she's kind of a trendy dresser), a guitar player who always has on a turtleneck, another guy who plays a keyboard that is set to some sort of horn (usually sax or trumpet), and two women who are a little off-key that sing. oh man, i can't really explain it, but i love it. 

Each week we have a different work duty. this week mine was evangelism with wallace, one of the staff members here. he's really cool and has a real heart for talking to people about God. our work duty is after lunch for two hours, and we did things like go to the hospital and pray for people, or just go to different people's houses in the neighborhood that wallace knows and just talk and get to know them. one night we went to a house and sang worships songs and shared what God was teaching us in school. i guess wallace goes there every week or two, but i really liked meeting them and getting to know them a little better. yesterday, we just drove around town and looked for people to talk to. and wallace saw a girl that he knew (ok, well he pretty much knows just about everyone in this town) and we gave her and her friend a ride down to punto de lobos. and a bunch of us have been wanting to go there on a weekend, its about an hours walk away and we haven't really gotten a chance to go yet because we've had different things going on. but it was beautiful, i wish that i had my camera. and i guess that its a big surf spot, anyways i would like to go again. some of us we're supposed to go today, but almost everyone had some lame excuse to not go. probably because we have a lot of homework this weekend, we have a book report due on monday. and i of course haven't started it yet, but i have read the book, so it shouldn't be too bad. and its not really a real book report, like we don't have to write a paper or anything just do some project. 

I've been so tired this week, like way more than usual. i think that it could have possibly started because we had daylight savings time last sunday, so we lost an hour. and now i am four hours ahead of home instead of three, and also when you guys change time i think we'll be five hours apart, and i hate that. it was hard enough when there were only 3 hours difference to find a time to talk to people, now who knows when i will. and then i think i've also been tired just because its been a while since i've been here and i'm in the routine of things now so i've just hit a wall i guess.  but i am in the routine of being here now, and now that i am used to it, its a lot easier and i really like it here. i've been becoming better friends with a lot of people and i really enjoy most of the people here. 

Next week we leave on our mini-outreach for two weeks. my group is going to arauco, chile. i don't know much about it there, but i'm really excited to go. i think that we are going to either be staying at churches or being housed by people from the churches that we are going to work at. we learned like 3 or 4 more dramas this week, and i guess we still have 2 or 3 left to learn before next week and another dance. so hopefully we'll get all of that done. there are 15  people in my group, and i'm also excited because the leader of our group is my one-on-one leader, maria. so it will be nice to have her there and also a couple of my closer friends are going with me. we didn't get to pick where we wanted to go for this outreach, they just put us in groups. 

This week God has really been teaching me a lot about obedience. and everyday during class, the teacher has talked about something that God had been trying to tell me to do, but i haven't been wanting to listen to God about it. but this week He really just showed me some things that I haven't been doing, the way he wants or how i am supposed to, and just that i've been doing a lot of things in my life because i want to do them not because God wants me to. so it's been a little bit of a wake-up call for me. and well in regards to that my plans have changed a little bit. I've been planning on going to Ecuador/Columbia for outreach and God has really been telling me that i am not supposed to go there. and for the last week and a half i've been battling with God about going there and struggling with it and pretty much just telling Him to change His mind. well God didn't change His mind and He wants me to go to Thailand and England, so I guess that is where I am going. it's not necessarily my first choice, but i feel pretty good about it because i feel like its where i am supposed to go. and it's gonna be really hard. and its not what i planned for, its a lot more money than i was expecting, but i believe that if its where God wants me then He will provide a way for me to get there. 

I guess thats pretty much all for now, i really need to go and work on some homework now. and as always, i appreciate your prayers. i miss you guys. 

love.