3 de Octubre

After school today, we decided to check out this Italian restaurant that we see on our way home every day called “il forno.” When we arrived at 12:30, we were told that they would be ready to serve us in about 20 minutes. It never ceases to amuse me that Peruvians tend to eat lunch so much later than we do! We’ve gone to KFC 30 minutes after they’ve opened and they haven’t been ready for another 20 minutes, too. ¿Que loco, no? So, anyway . . . we ended up eating the lunch buffet that they had prepared at Il Forno. It was so delicious! There were various appetizers which we almost filled ourselves up on, and another buffet full of different types of pastas. Then, to finish it off, there was a dessert buffet! I was in heaven with the chocolate desserts! So, since we were so full, we decided to walk back to our apartment . . . haha.

*the buffet! *some really good stuff. :)* me encanta chocolate y azucar!!! :)
*IL FORNO
On our way back, we came across a SURCO sign that I’d been wanting to take a picture in front of. Surco, of course, is the district in which we live in Lima.

On another note, I came across the following quote and began to really ponder over its implications:

“Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.”—a West Point cadet

Sometimes it can be so easy to stay trapped in our own mindset. The book I’m reading, The Fuel and the Flame, was talking about how if we are going to have an impact for Christ, we must go share Him with those who do not know Him. The book warns us against getting trapped in our “holy huddles” and encourages us to make friends with those that we don’t know and may even be different from us. The Bible does not call us to become like the world, but does call us to love the world. Christ came and spent 33 years here on earth so that He could show His love for us. He became like us, lived among us and spent time with us. It can be so difficult to really understand the meaning of self-sacrifice and love. I pray that as I spend more time here in Peru, that God would give me a desire to spend time with those who are different from me so that His love might shine through my life. I pray that I will become a Christ-filled loving body that radiates with the message of God and His salvation for all.

“I am a free man, nobody’s slave; but I make myself everybody’s slave in order to win as many people as possible. While working with the Jews, I live like a Jew in order to win them; and even though I myself am not subject to the Law of Moses, I live as though I were when working with those who are, in order to win them. In the same way, when working with Gentiles, I live like a Gentile, outside the Jewish Law, in order to win Gentiles. This does not mean that I don’t obey God’s law; I am really under Christ’s law. Among the weak in faith I become weak like one of them, in order to win them. So I become all things to all people, that I may save some of them by whatever means are possible. All this I do for the gospel’s sake, in order to share in its blessings.” (Paul) 1 Corinthians 9:19-23

Katrina

new pics!!