Hola!

That is about the extent of my knowledge at this moment in time! Trying to bust this out before I take a quick power nap! So early morning Santiago and I set out for Houston on Feb. 2 and I then flew to Miami, walked 5 feet to the next gate and quickly jumped on to the next flight to Lima. In the back of the plane I parked it for the next several hours, and met 4 others that I would be living life with for the next week! Gabriel is from Tennessee and is going to South Brazil for University ministry. Sara(h?) is from Dallas/Plano and will be in Chile doing church planting ministry and such along with Bre, who is from Vegas. Then we have Jake who is from North Carolina who will be in Columbia.

We arrived in Lima, Peru super late..I don't even remember anymore-maybe 12:15am? Went through customs, and got ready for the crazy! Heavy bags in hand, tired and excited we found Rick and Cindy (our coordinators and fearless leaders for the week!) in the madness. Matthew joined us, he is from Texas and will be with Gabriel in Brazil, then we found Madison! She is from Louisiana and will be in Antigua y Barbuda doing a True Love Waits ministry in the schools. We made the bus ride to our hotel and got settled in bed around 1:45 or so.

Tuesday began slowly, so wonderful. We grabbed a quick breakfast close by and then went to our home away from home. We are doing orientation each day that consists of our organization's workers in Lima over the America's teaching on different things. Culture shock, safety, keeping from sickness..etc. We also had missionaries who decided to stay/extend their term hang out with us for the evening to talk and love on. We have learned that Chifa's are great cheap Chinese food, and that La Lucha (the fighter) has amazing sweet potato fries. Got my fix of them :) Such a sweet blessing!

Wednesday started out a little earlier but similar to Tuesday. We studied Orality, World View, Communication Processes, Syncretism, Cultures, Missiology, INR, and Community Transformation Training. Yep, we are basically pre-doctorate's. We then ate at a chicken restaurant and had amazing mall ice cream for dessert! We are so blessed to be learning from the best, drinking amazing coffee, being encouraged daily of the Great Commission and seeing the Lord so at work.

Thursday after our classes we rested for a bit and headed out for a quick dinner to then take a double decker tour of Lima! We saw super old beautiful buildings, crazy drivers and had a late night snack! We also went to "the biggest water fountain park in the world" So cool.

Today (Friday) will have it's own post. Simply wonderful and amazing!

Pray for Saturday, we will all be heading to our locations, the Brazil guys will be staying a few extra days but all of us will be off! Tonight we said goodbye to Hannah and Madison, the others of us will be leaving in shifts throughout the night and I will be leaving 7 am tomorrow for my 11am flight. I will be going to a small area on the border of Peru Saturday-Monday and stay with a family.
Then Monday I will get to head to my Brazilian family! Continue to pray for what my time will look like in Brazil and that I will be ready and willing to work hard and be stretched by the Lord. I won't always have this much to write, but I also want to remember all the pieces of this!



So far I have not had any major issues.. adjusting to the normal different things! Pray that the Lord continues to be my full delight.
He is stirring up great things and hope that you will pray with me for the reached, unreached and people working in the America's for those people.

Ask questions, I will most likely have a vague answer or none at all but can try! Also, pray is key, so let me know how your life is and how I can be praying for you in the days to come!

Love you!