Buenas noches, como estas?
Bit by bit, I’m learning Spanish. Poquito.
God is good. So many things, big little, have happened this week that just prove that over and over again. School stuff just coming together in miraculous ways, hearing the stories of changed lives at a wedding yesterday afternoon, a funeral today where someone came to the front and asked for forgiveness for his past sins, and wanting to accept Jesus in his life! Things are hard yes, why did a young man have to die?? Nonetheless, we are NOT God and we don’t know the answers, we just trust that he is GOOD. It was a beautiful funeral service, ending with long hugs and hope.
As I see the community gather around families here in both celebration and grieving, I am so thankful for the community that I have. I have family and so many friends, a ‘clan,’ a church family, all who are so amazing. This sounds incredibly trite/cliche as I’m writing, but I do want to recognize and be intentionally grateful for what I have, and I have a LOT. My new community here is something I’m grateful for as well:) Thank you ALL for whatever role you have in my life!
Bit by bit, I’m learning Spanish. Poquito.
God is good. So many things, big little, have happened this week that just prove that over and over again. School stuff just coming together in miraculous ways, hearing the stories of changed lives at a wedding yesterday afternoon, a funeral today where someone came to the front and asked for forgiveness for his past sins, and wanting to accept Jesus in his life! Things are hard yes, why did a young man have to die?? Nonetheless, we are NOT God and we don’t know the answers, we just trust that he is GOOD. It was a beautiful funeral service, ending with long hugs and hope.
As I see the community gather around families here in both celebration and grieving, I am so thankful for the community that I have. I have family and so many friends, a ‘clan,’ a church family, all who are so amazing. This sounds incredibly trite/cliche as I’m writing, but I do want to recognize and be intentionally grateful for what I have, and I have a LOT. My new community here is something I’m grateful for as well:) Thank you ALL for whatever role you have in my life!
After the wedding photo! Nancy, my new
roommate and an English teacher at the Villa Nueva school, is on the
left. Ella, a linguist working on a Plaut Deutsch curriculum in the
Santa Cruz province in the middle. Both good friends of mine here:)
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