I finished Spanish School!!

I FINISHED SPANISH SCHOOL!!! Our graduation was last week were we had to give a five minutes speech in Spanish. It went well I guess because they gave me the certificate that says I finished the class. Thanks to all who were praying for me as I was going through Language school. The Paragauy team has started their second part of training which means we are back in school. We are going through missionary training classes. All in Spanish I might add. So please keep me and the rest of the team in prayer as we go through our schooling.
As many of you know we are working in the area of Chachani. God has been doing big things in this area and I am stealing a little bit of our Chachani blog to tell you all about it:
From the medical clinic we met a woman whose daughter was having trouble in school. We set up a visit that day in the clinic and we met with her the following Tuesday. We went and visited her and she talked about all the problems that her daughter was having in school. This women talked about how her job was hard to deal with while at the same time trying to help her daughter. We prayed with her and we all walked away from the visit knowing we would visit again but having the feeling that she was not interested in knowing God. On the following Saturday we had our normal kids group. This woman showed up and Rayann had the opportunity to talk to with her. She asked Rayann if we were planning to do anything for the adults. Rayann told her that we wanted to but we had not yet. The woman said that we needed to start something and she went on to describe a small group. Keep in mind, this was the woman who a couple days before gave the impression that she was not interested in learning more Now she was asking us to start a small group. It was mind-blowing to us but we jumped at the opportunity.
The following Wednesday Emily and Rayann went and visited this women again. They talked about how much we wanted to start a cell group in the area but we needed a location. The woman told us about a building that is a local building. She said that she would talk to the president about getting the key so we could use the building for meetings. It is amazing how God is using this women in a way we where not expecting at all. We plan to follow up with this women this Tuesday and see if she got the keys. If so we plan to start our first cell group in Chachani this Sunday. We know that God is going to use this women even more then he already has and we also know that God has big plans for this area. We cannot wait to see the big picture!

That was from a last week but we went out again yesterday and we wrote another blog post for that:
Today we had a special opportunity to visit with Jessica and her three daughters, and we were there for an emotional goodbye between them and her husband/their father. He is leaving for the rest of this month for work, which is good but also hard on the family. Unfortunately, this situation is quite common. If a man is responsible, not a drunk, and able to find work, he will often have to leave for long periods of time, probably not for what we would consider a fair wage.
But the joy we were able to share in was in talking with Jessica. She is very excited to begin discipleship classes next week, and on top of that she has helped us contact the president of her area to obtain keys to a 'locale' where we plan on holding a starter service this Sunday. We are hoping that many people will come, want to learn more about God and want a relationship with Him. But even if we have a service with just us + 2, we know God is working and trust Him to build His church if we will but lay the brick where He tells us.
Jessica shared a lot of very personal things with us, including how her daughter wanted to know what God is like, what Heaven is like, and why there is suffering in the world if God is good. We were able to share about God's love, sin and salvation, and just comfort some of her worries. We prayed with her and left optimistic for a chance to begin discipling someone who is yearning to know God more. (malvado, by the way, is the word for evil... we couldn't think of it while we were talking to her!)
The other group (we were split in two) got to visit some more of the contacts we have been trying to reach since the medical clinics, and were invited to share in "mystery meat" soup time! It is such a blessing to know we can connect, get to know and earn the trust of God's beloved in Chachani!

Isn't God amazing. He has blessed us with this women!
And yes I was part of the mystery meat visit but it was amazing to have an opportunity to visit with this group. The group that offered us soup is very interested in knowing about the bible but as of yet our schedules do not work to meet. Please be in prayer that we will have the chance to meet with them and start classes.