9-10 de Noviembre (Más Choko Soda!)

Fridays are the best days! :) Once school was over, we went to the mission office to check and see if we had any mail! It was wonderful because, well, we did!! Getting mail is such a spirit booster and also the one thing that makes me homesick.

Anyway, I received letters from the USA and some packages!! Soooo, thank you Jehee and Aunt Sherri and Mommy for the packages! They made it all the way without anything being stolen from them. . . at least, I think everything was there. :) And thank you Ma, Jenna-Wade, Aunt Dawn, Aunt Sherri, Kalley and Karley for you letters! I enjoyed reading them on the bus ride home from Miraflores. :) Oh, and I especially enjoyed the Halloween ones. Haha.

Later, we went to the Marshall’s for our small group meeting. Even though Bill was sick in Ecuador all week, he still managed to prepare discussion for us! What a trooper. :) He even let us sing some “clap songs” which meant that we got to, well, clap! I was excited! :) Some of those songs took me back to my old AWANA days. “Give me oil in my lamp keep me burning, burning, burning. . .” and “The Lord Liveth! and blessed be the rock (clap clap!) and let the God of my salvation be exalted. . .” It was so great. :)

Saturday we took a trip to the grocery store to replenish our food supply. Estaba muriendo de hambre by the time we got back home at 3:00 because I hadn’t eaten yet! I thought we were out of bread, so I wasn’t able to eat anything until after we’d shopped. But, when we got home, I found like three slices of bread in the cabinet and realized that I’d nearly starved to death for nothing! Ha. Speaking of being without food, I don’t think Aulo will let Liz or me starve because he seems to be keeping us stocked up with Choko Soda!! When he came to the Bible study today, he rang the speaker system and announced that he was there. My response was, “Did you bring Choko Soda,” to which he confirmed that he did. Well, I was TOTALLY joking, but he really had brought some! Awwww. He’s so nice. :) I guess he knows how to get on my good side! (Anyone else out there wishing to do so may take notes from Aulo’s example. . . I love chocolate. Comprendes?) :)

Yeah, so Bible study was awesome and we had more new faces tonight! In particular, one of our newest conversation club members came with her boyfriend. She said that she plans on coming back next week, too, so we’ll see! I enjoyed the comments that we had regarding our study on 1 Timothy. Tonight’s topic was a bit interesting considering that we talked about roles of men and women as defined in chapter 2. Hopefully our explanation of the things that were confusing to our Bible study members was sufficient.

Anyway, we’ve got about 5 and a half weeks left here in Peru, and I’m really praying that Liz and I are able to be used to the fullest of God’s intention for us. I’ve done my best to eliminate distractions from my life so that I may focus completely on why I’m really here, on why God has placed me here for this short time. If you have time in your day or when you’re done reading this, please pray that God will be able to use our time of service here to further His kingdom is ways beyond what we could’ve planned or imagined. Pray that because of our obedience in being here, we will see more faces in heaven, that more souls will be saved. Pray that God be pleased in the way that we’ve spent our time here and that He will be glorified in all that we do. Pray that His love will be shown through our actions and encounters with those who are lost and searching.

Katrina

“He wants not only us but everyone saved, you know, everyone to get to know the truth we've learned: that there's one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us—Jesus, who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out. This and this only has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth."—1 Timothy 2:4-7