Friday was our last day of class for this month! Yay! Liz and I both passed our classes with flying colors and will advance to our next levels starting on Wednesday.
Gina and Quentin Roberts asked Liz and I if we would be available to help them with a bit of testing for their English class. After our Spanish classes were over, we went to downtown Lima to test these students. It was so fun to be able to help out in other areas of ministry here, and I had a great time meeting some new faces. The students did exceptionally well, and I left there very impressed!
Following the testing, the Roberts invited Liz, Dawna and me out for lunch. They were so sweet and said that they’d meant to invite us out when we first got here but had gotten busy. We wanted to go to China Town (Barrio Chino), so they took us to a delicious restaurant down there. The food was tasty and the time we got to spend together was nice. It’s always encouraging to be around the Roberts and see just how kind and sincere they are about serving the Lord. God has blessed me with the opportunity to get to know such wonderful examples of how to live your life to serve Him. We spoke of my future plans, or lack thereof, and I found great encouragement in the things they had to say.
*the weird fortune cookies from the restaurant!
After we got done eating, we walked around China Town and checked out a few of the shops. There’s also a big market downtown where they sell raw meat! It smelled terrible, but Liz and I managed to hold our breath long enough to snap a quick picture! Dawna couldn’t handle it. Haha.
*yucky.
Lima has one free museum, and we also went there! The museum displays the torture that the Spanish inflicted upon those who were unwilling to convert to Catholicism several hundred years ago. Unfortunately, there was no English tour guide available, so Gina just took us around and told us what she remembered of the museum. We also stopped and translated some signs for some other people that were in our group. It was really sad to see the things that they would do to these people including normal things like hanging. A more extreme method of torture involved tying horses to a person’s legs and arms and getting the horses to run. Yikes. It’s unbelievable to think that people could’ve actually committed such indecencies against their fellow man.
*liz, me and dawna with the judges for the inquisition
Since it was getting late in the afternoon, we headed back over to Surco to meet up with our friends for small group. This week we ended up bringing Deivis, Aulo, Junior, Eswin and Ashleigh. Once there, Dawna volunteered her services as worship leader and played the guitar for us. We had such a wonderful time worshipping through song together. I think we must’ve sang for at least an hour! “One more song,” we kept saying. :) I know Bill really enjoyed having Dawna there.
We studied sin and the way God views it. It’s amazing to me that in spite of all that I’ve done wrong in my life, Jesus still died for me; God still loves me. I am forgiven. There are times where Satan takes control of my emotions and tricks me into thinking that there’s no way God could forgive someone like me. The awesome thing about God’s love is that it doesn’t seem my sin anymore. When God looks at my heart, all He sees is the blood of Christ covering up my mistakes, my sins. It’s often something that I find myself in awe of. God loves me. He died for me. And He died for you.
Katrina
“. . . that if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”-Romans 10:9
“. . .que si confiesas con tu boca que Jesús es el Señor, y crees en tu corazón que Dios lo levantó de entre los muertos, serás salvo.”-Romanos 10:9
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