Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Guadalupe Day
Altotonga, Mexico -- Well, it's been about the same this past week. I've had a few opportunties to share with some newer girls-- with some opportunities that just seemed to present themselves. It was pretty cool!I continue to learn new things here about the culture and about people here. Never underestimate the power of cultural differences. :)On Monday and Tuesday, I helped "keep an eye" on Chris and Vonda's kids while they went to the beach for Vonda's birthday.Today is Guadalupe Day... where they celebrate the patron saint of Mexico. So, somewhere around 5:30am started loud fireworks, and all throughout the day it has continued to be like that. Fireworks, parades, etc. Tomorrow morning, I'm going to go visiting a few of the college-aged youth girls, and then to the Club I go!I'm going to get. It's late and I still have things to do! Have a good one!
Monday, December 3, 2007
Messy Object Lessons
Altotonga, Mexico -- Hey there all! Well, it's been like a week and a half since last posting. Sorry about the delay-- a few things have come up that have kept me busier than normal. Ha!
Things continue around here. We celebrated Thanksgiving with Josh and Jenell, who used to live here, and Lori Brookins, who was in to give us a class. It was a good day to sit back and be American! :)
Like I said, we took a class on Teaching English as a Second Language. So, now I am certified to do that. I learned a lot-- even about my own language! And I already have 2 pupils lined up. :) I don't think right now that I'll take more than that.The 24th, I had the opportunity to give the teaching at the Saturday night meeting (now I teach about once a month). I talked about Proverbs 4:23 and, as I am slightly abnormal-- I used a pig heart to demonstrate what sin and bad attitudes do to the heart and what happens to our heart when someone wounds it. It was a fun, but very very messy teaching. It involved bleach, toilet water, mud, weird mixtures of stuff... and a knife. And then, we talked about how God can cleanse and heal the heart if we allow the Doctor to do it. We had some new youth that night, and they had "thinking" looks on their faces. I'm sure it's something that will stick with them.
So, I've been visiting some of the college-age youth this week and I've heard some interest in this college-age group getting started. So, that's exciting. I'm kind of on hold on that right now with all the changes that are going on as far as the Club and Chris and Vonda and the leaders who seemed to drop on me. But, I still have the plan, so, no worries. Keep praying and God will raise it up! For now, I'm trying to get to know more and more of them-- so that when we start-- we have people! :)
I've been also working at forming more of a friendship with the Pastor of the local church and his family. I'm looking forward to seeing what God is going to do in conjunction between the church and the Club in the future. This is something that I'm praying often about.
Please be in prayer concerning someone from here coming alongside me to help run things in the Club.Well, it's late and I'm tired-- so I think I'm going to go get some rest.
Things continue around here. We celebrated Thanksgiving with Josh and Jenell, who used to live here, and Lori Brookins, who was in to give us a class. It was a good day to sit back and be American! :)
Like I said, we took a class on Teaching English as a Second Language. So, now I am certified to do that. I learned a lot-- even about my own language! And I already have 2 pupils lined up. :) I don't think right now that I'll take more than that.The 24th, I had the opportunity to give the teaching at the Saturday night meeting (now I teach about once a month). I talked about Proverbs 4:23 and, as I am slightly abnormal-- I used a pig heart to demonstrate what sin and bad attitudes do to the heart and what happens to our heart when someone wounds it. It was a fun, but very very messy teaching. It involved bleach, toilet water, mud, weird mixtures of stuff... and a knife. And then, we talked about how God can cleanse and heal the heart if we allow the Doctor to do it. We had some new youth that night, and they had "thinking" looks on their faces. I'm sure it's something that will stick with them.
So, I've been visiting some of the college-age youth this week and I've heard some interest in this college-age group getting started. So, that's exciting. I'm kind of on hold on that right now with all the changes that are going on as far as the Club and Chris and Vonda and the leaders who seemed to drop on me. But, I still have the plan, so, no worries. Keep praying and God will raise it up! For now, I'm trying to get to know more and more of them-- so that when we start-- we have people! :)
I've been also working at forming more of a friendship with the Pastor of the local church and his family. I'm looking forward to seeing what God is going to do in conjunction between the church and the Club in the future. This is something that I'm praying often about.
Please be in prayer concerning someone from here coming alongside me to help run things in the Club.Well, it's late and I'm tired-- so I think I'm going to go get some rest.
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