Sunday, August 24, 2008

A little taste of America

So i am sorry for not keeping you updated on this for a while. its been alittle busy with going out and doing alot of things exploring the different districts of Lima. we have gone seriously from downtown to the most expensive part of Lima.  well to get a good idea of what has been the adventures of my short life in Peru there is soo much so little by little i must explain at a time. i am actually sitting here in the lounge area of the campus "lounge" and these boys are trying to play the cajon it its their first time trying to play the peruvian way. and to be honest my head is about to split. the Lord is trying to teach me patience here especially with the people.  well adding to the blog i first wrote the following day a gang of us like 6 to be correct fixed into a cap literally sitting on top of each other (which i was intersting and fun experience) we went to this outside mall that had a bunch of stores that reminded me of america. i never really realized how much i miss america itself. maybe its just something i must be getting use to.  this mall was in Lacmare it seriously sat right on the edge of the upper part if the city and you look down the cliff and right there was the ocean and beach. the clothes are much like american clothing but when you go to look at the prices of the clothing you think its like really expensive but the currency here is 2.90 of the exchange so really in american money it is not that bad.  after this little walk around the Mall went walked down to this park called parke de amor which means the park of Love. it had two statues making out and there were like a million couples there holding and kiss each other( weird its like america!) we ended up having a great day that day. class have started and they are in  block period one class starts in two weeks and goes for the length of two weeks then it ends and then another one picks up.  right at the moment i am taking nehemiah its a really really good class it talks a lot about being a leader and what it takes. the Lord has been speaking to me soo much through this class so yeah. and through my devos in the day the Lord has been speaking to me about being faithful in the small things. a week has gone by now here and i think some of us may caught a little bug but we cant be to sure.  they have put everyone into ministry here for one of our classes you either go saturday all day or sunday.  My ministry is on sunday and i go to the english speaking church and help the peruvians with their english. last week was my first sunday i have a feeling its going to be good and i am totally thankful for this too.  be able to communicate with people and know what they are saying is my huge taste of America.  We have done soo many things here and i am sorry for not being to good at updating you but i will try more but the internet only works when it wants to so yeah. please be praying for me i was REALLY these last few days so just pray over all for the campus health. its something that is going around.  like i have said there are soo many stories from movie nights on saturday nights to random guys down at the internet canbianas (which is where you can go get on the internet to check your email for like 5o centimos) asking me on date over all.  i dont love it yet but its only been two weeks. today i was just thinking that the only reason why i am here is to not fall in love with the country but to be taken out of my comfort zone and for the Lord to work on my heart.  that i think it is something to fall in love with more than a country can EVER hold.  
of course still having a cup of tea every now again. still with the sweetest mug ever. drinking and hanging out in the...cold.... but oh well the sun shine seems to come out on weekends which is nice but only for a little bit like this morning it came out and stayed out for some time until about noon. but last night a grip of us went and had papa Johns and it was soooo good. i have never been so thankful.. then on our way back we saw a man lying on the ground and he was a deliver man from the papa johns and he got hit by a car but the car had took off (it was soo sad i wanted to cry for him)  and he was hurt bad so we had walked over there prayed for him and spoke to him about the Lord.  speaking of being papa johns when these people were leaving they asked if we were christians (because we had prayed for our food) and it turns out they were christians too.  so last night was a pretty sweet night.  when we go out something happens or there is always a story to tell.  
*please pray for John (man on bike who got hit)*

also one last note: i can get phone cars so i can call out of the country to the states so hopefully you will hear from me soon.  like i have said earlier they only work when they want to really. well at least for me! 

much love!