Day 2 - by Emily

Today was our first full day here. It was great! We all struggled to get out of bed because it is so cold, but once we did, it was good. We started the day doing our own thing. Kelsey and I sat on the roof to do our devotional.... It was nice and warm up there. After breakfast (a banana with peanut butter), we met everyone for worship. It was a great time of singing, hearing Jeremy S's testimony, and learning to put a Bible story to memory.

Sunday is market day, so after worship we went out and saw the town all set up and busy for the market. It was great getting to see the town in the daylight and to practice my Spanish with a few people. One lady came up and was asking me for medicine over and over again, and I kept telling her I didn't have any. I was very confused.... It ends up that they thought we were a part of the medical team that just left yesterday, and she was hoping that I had more medicine for her. I was happy to know that I hadn't completely misunderstood her Spanish...

After lunch we had several sessions with John about the Aymara culture, village life, culture shock, etc. It was all really interesting. It made me very excited for when we get to see our "home" for the summer and meet the people in Conima. I'm really excited to start building relationships with the people. Hopefully, my Spanish will come back to me quickly. I was able to use it a little bit today, but I am SOOO rusty, so please pray for me to become conversational again quickly.

For dinner we had an interesting (but yummy!) combination. We had Velveeta macaroni and pancakes. We were just using ingredients that we have! Luckily, Jeremy L knows how to make pancakes from memory, and they were really good. They actually should have been crepes because we didn't have baking soda, but for some reason they still turned into pancakes...

A group of us are about to head over to the house where the Huancane group of girls are staying to hang out and play games. Hopefully, I'll be able to post another blog tomorrow!!