Sorry for the delay in blogposts! The youth team has been here with us, and we have been pretty busy, and I have also been sick off and on.
Anyway, I´ll give a quick summary of the week. Heather and I continued to do English lessons this week, and they all went really well. Also this week, we started community storying at the goverment building on the Plaza. Monday night went really well... 18 people showed up, and Jeremy L told the creation story! Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday there were not nearly as many people, and it was a little discouraging. We think that it has a lot to do with kids running around, distracting and taking away from the experience. Friday, however, there were lots of people again! And the coolest part is that one of the Peruvians (who had consistently attended every night) named either Paúl or Pablo (we don´t seem to know for sure) had asked a couple of nights earlier to learn the story for Friday. Well, he did it, and he did a great job! We will do three more of these sessions next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I am telling the story of the life of Jesus on Tuesday, but I´m having a lot of trouble memorizing this time, so keep me in your prayers!!
Friday we saw our first fiesta in Conima. It was interesting, but also very sad because everyone was all dressed up, dancing, but getting drunk out of their minds. I was told that the fiesta was to celebrate the growth of the potato crop.
Other than that, we also did two stories with Sofia, and they both went really well. Also, another big part of the week was preparing for and having three VBS sessions at the school that I had mentioned before. It went SO WELL! We had about 30 or 35 consistent kids, and they loved coming. I worked the craft station where we did a lot of coloring and gluing. The kids told me that their school does not even own crayons or glue. Everything, including the story, went SO WELL! We got to get close to many of the kids and start building special relationships with them. I think that we really made our reason for being here known by doing that because we have started to hear more talk about us around the community. For example, when we were eating lunch at the restaurant on Friday, a drunk man sat across the room from us shouting at us in Spanish. I didn´t understand at first, but after listening, and with the help of John´s translation, we found out that he was telling us that we didn´t know what we were teaching the people, and we don´t know how to teach the Bible, so we needed to stop. It was very strange because it went on and on for about fifteen minutes while we were trying to ignore him and finish our lunch.
For more detailed updates on the week and VBS, look at: http://fbcwpperumissions.blogspot.com. This is where all of the summer missionaries´posts are located.
Yesterday was a really fun day. We had planned to go hiking with the group, but those plans were canceled by the first rainstorm since we had arrived in the middle of June! I really enjoyed the rain.... It had been a long time since I had heard it or seen it. We just spent the whole afternoon indoors, playing Phase 10 and other card games, making lunch, taking showers, etc. That evening, Kelsey, Heather, and I made pollo a la milenesa for the group, and my sister made some amazing mac and cheese! After dinner (which everyone seemed to like), we went upstairs by the fire for a movie night and watched the Blind Side!! It was my fifth time to see it, but I still loved it!
This morning we all gathered together for one last time of prayer. The youth team prayed over us, packed their bags, and left. They should be getting to the Juliaca airport right now, so pray for safety for them as they travel home!
Today we all cleaned the house and had vegetable soup for lunch. I´m still getting over this stupid bug that won´t seem to leave our group, but at the moment, I feel fine! Tonight I´m cooking BBQ chicken with Heather. We are trying to use up all of our ingredients that we had bought since we will leave Conima in one week.
God is really moving here. Our main focus this week will be our community storying sessions and Pablo/Paúl since he has shown the most interest. We will also be doing more storying with Armando, the police officers, and Sofia this week as well. It´s our last week, so we want to make the biggest impact that we possibly can, and we want to get to the story of salvation with as many people as possible.
Thanks for reading. Hopefully my blogs will be a little more consistent from now on. Love to all!
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