peace out santiago...here we come foggy london town.

as my two weeks here in santiago comes to an end, i can say that i am very glad that God put this little detour in our trip. when we first arrived here, no one really wanted to be here, myself included. we all just felt like this was some dumb filler before we went to england and thailand. well, it sure is a good thing that God has better plans for us than we have for ourselves. I really believe that God gave us this time to grow as a family. we got to learn more about each other and we all lived together in a small little behind our leader´s house and we all shared one bathroom, needless to say it was all very fun. God really blessed us with our time here. there are two men that we met here, and most of the time we endearingly refer to them as our ¨two angels.¨these two guys just show up to our house every couple of days and it´s like they are speaking directly from God into our lives. One day last week during team time, we were all talking about how we don´t know what our role is suppose to be on this team. well, the very next day these two gentlemen came over and out of nowhere started talking about how God wants us to be unified in the Spirit and then told each of us what our roles are. I am the ¨nose,¨which means that I sense people´s needs and when they need to be talked to and things like that. So that was a pretty awesome answer to prayer. But these guys keep coming back and just speaking really cool things that at least one of us needed to hear at the time. At first we really felt like we weren´t doing much here, but we see now that things aren´t always what they seem. and i think its because we were looking for our actions to bear fruit here in the church, but now we see that it is more like we have planted a seed. God´s just been showing Himself to us in very cool ways here and it´s been really awesome. We´ve been preaching, well I haven´t actually preached in church, but I gave my testimony and have been singing worship multiple times, sometimes in english and sometimes in spanish. Oh ya and we also have to do this thing called punta, and they only do it in chile in the really traditional churches. It´s basically going on the street with this microphone thing and ¨preaching¨ on the street, but its more like saying ÿou´re¨a sinner and you need God, which I´m not really into saying. Anyway, I had to do it in spanish, and I didn´t say much, but I did invite people to church. I have some pictures and I will try to put them on my photobucket sometime tonight or tomorrow before we leave.
i know that i am on the right team. God has affirmed that to me. and I know that I am going to learn a lot from being here on this team with these people. and I really feel like God has special plans for this team. Especially since there are so few of us and that we all speak English, something that none of the other teams have.
tomorrow we leave for england. and I am almost a little sad to leave here, but happy to not be in the scorching heat anymore. I can´t remember the last time I was so hot and couldn´t do anything about it. also, I´ll be glad to not each so much anymore. I think I´ve gained 10 pounds just since we´ve got to santiago. They feed us all the time and about 75% of the food they eat is bread, and its not really good bread, its all thick and dense and made with lard. yum. but i will miss our leader alejandra. she is just with us for this part of the trip and she has been wonderful and so much fun. and the people here are super hospitable and love to have us over to eat.
well, that is all for now. i will try to update when i get to england and tell you how it is there. but i love you all. and please keep praying for us.