i´m on my way...

we safely arrived to santiago via bus on wednesday afternoon. it has been interesting so far. we are here until december 31. so far, we haven´t done very much here. there are 5 or 6 churches in this area that are run by the same head pastor, so each day they have been splitting us up and sending us to different churches at night. and during the day we´ve had a lot of free time. our whole team, plus another girl gabriela who is just with us until tomorrow, is staying in a back house. it only has two rooms and one tiny little bathroom. but it´s fun. today the pastor took sussann, gabby, and i to the feria (like a big swap meet type thing). it was cool to look around, but it was so hot. he wanted to buy us something to remember chile so he got us these copper picture things, it was really sweet of him. and then some lady that knows him who was selling empanadas gave us all free empanadas and drinks. the people here are so generous, they are always giving what they have. last night i went to dinner at a lady from the church´s house, she didn´t have much but she was really excited for sam and i to come over and eat with them. tonight we are going to some evangelistic thing and doing dramas, none of us really know what is going on, so i guess we´ll find out. it´s hard to be here and not speak that much spanish, i know the least spanish of anyone on my team, and then scott after me, we are the two that aren´t expected to speak in spanish. i find it really hard to pay attention sometimes because my mind doesn´t want to keep tracking and listening to spanish. oh well, it´s just for another week and a half, then off to england, where i can speak their language! just with a little bit different of an accent.

i´m so excited to be with this team and on this outreach. i know that God put our team together, and we have a special team. we had a great team time today and it was really encouraging. and i can´t wait to see what He is going to do while we are on this trip.

love.