Well here we are! Buenos Aires! We arrived midafternoon on Friday after an 11 hour flight from NYC. The past few days have been more relaxing (our leaders decided to be nice to us), we have been staying at a local pastor"s house just getting a feel for the area...yesterday we walked 80 blocks around town. Let me tell you, these people define hospitality! From the moment we arrived we have had food within reach at all times and always someone to talk to (as much as my Spanglish allows). We are slowly getting used to the schedule, which so far has been- wake up midmorning, eat a breakfast of chocolate milk and bread (Argentinian bread is awesome), have a "noon" meal around 1 or 2, a snack of some sort at 4, then we go to church and come home just in time for dinner...at 11. Dinner is quite the social event, there are usually people from church over, or grandchildren. Everyone is really friendly and want to get to know us. Poor Jenny has become our pass-around translator for those important conversations when "si", "no", or "claro" are not enough " ). The day usually ends around 1 am. Eating dinner here is synononamous with putting on PJs, you always eat right before bed. We told them that in America we eat at 530 and they could not believe that! Of course, it also gets dark much later here. The sun doesn"t start going down until around 9 so it just makes sense to eat later.
Tomorrow begins our more intensive schedule which I"m not completely sure of the details, but we are planning to travel from one church to another just about every week. Later this week we"ll be having a kids club for five days in the morning, and an evangelism training class for teens in the afternoon (and I still don"t know exactly what we are doing for those things...welcome to YWAM). I am excited, though still pretty nervous. Here we are no longer students, we are missionaries, and as far as everyone is concerned, we supposedly have all the answers...rather nerve wracking. I know now what it means to literally depend on God for everything that I say, not only because of the language difference. The church we have gone to for the past few nights is so great, people here really know how to worship with all they have! It is beautiful to experience.
Right now I am in a dark internet cafe, listening to Katy Perry (yes, Katy Perry) trying to avoid the heat (it is about 90 degrees here..and only the beginning of summer), and I am still sore from all the dance/drama practices we have been cramming into our free time (which is slowly depleting).
We all thank you for your prayers as we prepare to start ministering tomorrow.
-Oh, I have to add this for certain someones - Yes, peaches are definitely in season!
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I'm so glad you got there safely and are settling in. It must be so strange, though, to eat right before bed. That would take some getting used to. And I am so jealous it is hot there. It feels like I am always cold.
Love you and praying for you. And I am very glad there are ripe peaches down there!!!!!!!!!
Hello Love,
You are in my daily prayers, I love you and miss you bunches. By all means, take advantage of the ripe peaches and definitely taste one for me ok? :D- Oh and... until I can figure out how to change it... these comments are going to say they are from me and my mother... and have a picture of cluck cluck on them.... so you know, a little glimmer of the M village life for you i guess.
Great report! Can't wait to hear what comes next, although I am already thinking into next week :) Morning hugs, and pass the mate! Love to all, we miss you and hope to join you at some point. Oh, and I thought you had two team interpreters- don't let Hugo slack off :)
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