And so my day has begun. Christ walks beside me holding my hand, today and always. Sometimes I walk in doubt but my friend continues to hold my hand and guide me in encouragement. At times I walk in fear but my companion holds on tight and gives me strength. My body aches and I feel as if I cannot go on any longer. My friend gives me water and we continue on our journey, hand in hand. Then I begin to walk in shame and I want to hide from my friend but he holds on even tighter. He tells me all about grace and that his grace will never run out. We go on about our way but my feet are covered in sores so my friend lets go of my hand and carries me. O, what a friend I have!
Honestly, this morning I was feeling a bit discouraged. My stomache didn´t feel too good and I was stressing out bad about the language barrier. As I was sitting with my cup of tea and the word of God I heard a rooster crow and it was an instant comfort. It took me back to waking up every morning in Africa and spending some time with God first thing in the morning and hearing a rooster crow every single morning. Its like that rooster is a symol of something new, a new day that the Lord will use. A new day that the LORD will use, not I. The story above came to me as I was sitting there on top of our building with my cup of tea. I´m not doing this alone, in fact I´m not the one whose doing anything...Christ is carrying me the whole way. I just have to be obedient to God and go when he tells me to go. With that said, I´m learning to get over the worry of the language barrier because I know God is going to use me no matter what!
Today we learned how to hand wash our clothes. It sounds easy but trust me, its harder then it sounds. That water was cold, its cold up here in the mountains. Period. I think that my bones are getting somewhat used to it. I actually enjoyed hand washing my clothes even though it takes forever. I´m really learning to enjoy the simplicity of life. Guess what else I did today!?! I cut a chicken, yes...the vegetarian. I didn´t eat it though! We each got to take turns cutting off the wings and learning how to take of the skin and everything and where to cut it on the joints. Lets just say that I killed it...literally...well not really because the poor guy was already dead! I can´t upload pictures here because most of the computers have viruses. ); So today we had about two hours of down time so the two Jeremy´s and I went and played frisbee on the street with a bunch of kids. We also did hand stands with them. It was so fun! I got to sit down with a bunch of young girls and talk to them, well it was mostly them telling me how to say stuff in Spanish. It was so awesome though! Jeremy said that there was a huge group around me. Everyone was just laughing at my pathetic attempts at Spanish but I tried okay!! Tonight an Aymara man came and gave his testimony, he is now a pastor at a simple church. That was pretty amazing to see the result of the missionaries hard work and prayers. I also got to hear some worship songs in Spanish. Can you say beautiful!?! I need you all back home to be praying for us here. It may get really discouraging here. Its interesting to not have all the luxuries we have in America. I never thought that being able to flush toilet paper down the toilet would be that big of a deal. Or hand washing clothes. Or litterally spending two hours to prepare a meal because it´s completely different cooking food in this altitude. Anyways what I´m saying is that yeah, America is great and we have a lot but living a simple life isn´t so bad. We´ll see how I feel after six weeks here though! Ha. Its still crazy that think that I´ll be here this long. I went to the store today and got eggs, butter, and bread...that´s rights folks! It sounds so easy but not so easy when everyone around you speaks a different language! Ha. The stores here are so different, well obviously. Everything here is different but I can´t explain it with words, its something you have to see with your own eyes. When I get back to the states I can upload all my pictures. Also, I´ll tell you all about what we´ll be doing in Conima tomorrow! This is sooooo long! I´ll leave you with this, get out of God´s way and just let him use you.
-Love in Christ!
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