Bueno...

Bueno...
Well this past week had been a very good week. This past Saturday we went to a presentation at Andrea's school for Fathers day. We sat around and watched all the fathers play different games and we ate some cake to! It was fun and interesting just to see how Father's day is celebrated much more here.
We moved this past week and it is exciting!!! The family and us moved to a new house here in Arequipa. The house is huge and very nice with plenty of rooms! There are three floors plus a really nice roof you can go up on and sit. There are five bedrooms, but possibly the best part of it now is that we have a bigger bedroom. That means Rayann, Emily, and I get to share the same room!
The first foam Church in Huacsapata was built and the Inauguration for it happened this past weekend! The building looks awesome and it was a great day of celebration there! It was also cool because the inauguration was on the one year anniversary of Love Extreme. It is amazing to see all the work, efforts, and prayer that went into Love Extreme as it continues a year later to bear fruit - in this case the new church in Huacsapata! God is Awesome!

So I just wanted to take a moment to share with you all what has be going on lately. First Emily and Rayann made it safe and sound to Arequipa and I am so happy! I have also finished to my second Spanish book! I had a test on the second book and I did pretty good on it so it is on to book number three and now that Emily is here I have someone else in the class.
Right now we have a group of short termers down here, they are doing medical clinics and helping with the first foam church for Arequipa! The foam church is being built in Huacshapata and the last time I was there they already had the walls up. Construction on the building is going really well and we will be having the Inauguration this Sunday at the church. They have also seen many people at the medical clinics!
Huacshapata is a district that is really far away so you really have to take taxis out to the site. This past Sunday Rayann, Emily, and I decided to go out to it with the short termers. So I ended up being in a cab out there with a couple short termers and Emily. This meant that I ended up being the one having to give directions. At first that was okay because we were going to be following the other group’s taxi which was good because Mike was in the one and he has been here for a while. Well I just happened to pick a very bad taxi whose car was having problems. My group had to end up getting a different taxi while the other group kept going. So at that point it was up to me to get us there. We finally found another better taxi and after we started going the taxi driver started to talk to me in Spanish. We started talking and I was able to tell him a little bit about the Nazarene churches in Arequipa. It was all in Spanish too, I was very impressed with myself. We also made it all the way to Huacsapata safe and sound!
It has been a good week with lots of fun. Please continue to pray for Spanish school and we are able to continue to learn it fast and well! Also be praying for the church in Huacshapata will be able to reach many people.

Friday!

This past Friday has been a very interesting Friday. It started out with me having to take two combis to school, which was weird because normally I get a ride from my Peruvian dad. The combis were packed with people because it was morning and we somehow managed to get a seat on the first one.The seats were not very ideal because they were at the back of the very packed combi, however it was nice to sit down instead of trying to stay standing on the combi. (which I have yet to master) Well the place where we had to get off was coming up and my Peruvian mom was not noticing. I finally told her it was coming and we started to wade through the people to get to the front. I am not very graceful as many of you probably know so I just happened to step on some lady, of course the first words out of my mouth were sorry only I said it in English and she gave me this crazy look. I was still distracted by this lady's look and didn't notice another person who I accidentally slapped, but somehow I managed to get off the combi without much more damage to the people inside. On the second combi we took I almost fell into which made my Peruvian mom laugh at me but that is not to weird because she tends to laugh at all the silly things I do. On the second combi we did not end up getting a seat so I had to try and not almost fall again but we finally made it to the next place we have to get off. As I was getting off instead of putting the sol in the ladies hand I dropped it under the combi. She started to scold me in Spanish as she was trying to find it under the combi. She finally found it and then instead of giving me my change they pulled away. I lost out on 30 centimos! I finally made it to class only 15 minutes late. I have to say I felt like an elephant getting on and off those combis and Friday.
Friday night my family decided to take me to a sauna. I kind of did not know what to expect because I had never been to a sauna at home. So we went and it was a huge place that had a sauna, a vapor room, four swimming pools, and a snack bar. We went into the sauna first and I had said something in English to Andrea and a man that was near us heard me and he started to talk to me in English. He asked how long I have been here and why I was here. I told him about Extreme and how I was going to Paraguay to be a missionary. He asked if there was a Nazarene church in Umacollo because he thought he had seen one there before. I told him yeah there was a church there and it happened to be the one I attend on Sunday's. We did not talk much more then that but I would love to see him show up at Umacollo sometime. Going to the sauna was a neat experience and I would love to go again!
Emily and Rayann will be here in 4 days and I am super excited! I am also only two chapters away from finishing my second Spanish book!