So last night was the prostitute ministry. Three of us girls went along, and the other three will go next week, then we will have to decide whether to work with the homeless or the prostitues. It was so so amazing. The group meet at 8 oclock and have a small meeting where we share food together, have someone preach, worship and PRAY! We spent such a long time in prayer! I was thinking at one point 'come onnnn, let's go! We've been praying all night!' but prayer is the strongest thing these people can do for the prostitues. Also, they were so incredible in prayer. I had no idea what they were saying, but they were so passionate! They couldn't stop praying for these "women". (I say "women" because the prostitues we work with are actually male transvestites). Then when we went out to the streets (at around 11.30) the atmosphere was not how I expected it at all. They were so easy to connect with. They were so so accepting, and wanted to know where we were from, how long we had been in Chile, if we liked it, if we had been any where else in Chile, if we were planning to travel, about our family, what we studied. They were just so easy to talk to. So we took them bread and coffee, and talked, and then one of the Chilean women did a short talk about God and his love for them, then we all stood in a circle and prayed together. it really was amazing. Please pray for these men, they need God so so badly, and I think they know it. They are searching.

Then this afternoon we had a "city experience", we were not told anything about what we were going to be doing but were just told a time and a meeting place! Anyway, in the end they gave each of us 200 pesos and half an hour to walk around the central area of the city and ask God who to give this money to. (It is worth about 20p, not alot.. but you could easily get about 5 rolls of bread. I found it really difficult at first because I was asking God to lead me, but everywhere I walked there was such a need for this money, and I couldnt give it to all of them. I felt God saying that as far as I could walk I would find people who needed this money, and that I just had to pick someone and let them be blessed by God through me. It reminded me of the story of the boy who arrived by the seaside to find fish lining the beach, he began throwing them in. A man walked past and asked him why he was bothering he would never save them all before they dried out. The boy replied 'maybe not' and threw a fish into the sea 'but to that one I made all the difference' and he throws another on in the sea 'and that one' etc etc. Afterwards when we were sharing our stories about what had happened, Lise actually told this story too! Funny.