1-2 de Octubre (First day of School)

School started again on Monday. It is nice to be back in a classroom with the some of the same students as last time and some news ones, too! My teacher is really nice and takes time to explain things to us in ways that we can understand. Right now we’re working on the imperfect past tense. It’s not too bad so far. . .

Yesterday I received my first piece of mail!! I was so excited! :) Apparently Mrs. Adams sent it to me on September 5^th and it arrived in Lima on the 10^th. Somehow when Jeff and Judy went to check the mail at the mission office, it either got placed in the wrong stack or it was hiding from me for the past three weeks. But, it’s here now, and boy was I happy. :) Muchas gracias!!

In case anyone else wants to send me something ;), here’s the address:

Katrina Goetschius
Apartado 18-0765
Lima, 18, Perú

Otherwise, nothing too exciting has been going on. We start our first English Conversation Club class on Thursday. Hopefully we’ll see some old and new faces! Keep that in your prayers this week, and pray that these students will have a desire to come to our Bible study classes so that they may hear the word of God.

“When I came to you, my friends, to preach God’s secret truth, I did not use big words and great learning. For while I was with you, I made up my mind to forget everything except Jesus Christ and especially his death on the cross. So when I came to you, I was weak and trembled all over with fear, and my teaching and message were not delivered with skillful words of human wisdom, but with convincing proof of the power of God’s Spirit. Your faith, then, does not rest on human wisdom but on God’s power.” 1 Corinthians 2:1-5

“Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another when they face Christ in me.”—Jim Elliot, missionary who was martyred by the Auca Indians in Ecuador, 1956

Katrina