Thank-you so much for praying last Tuesday for visiting the homeless. I didn't go last week because I was visiting the prostitues, but people said that there was a heavy feeling in the atmosphere and that it was difficult to connect with people. However, on Tuesday before we left we had some great worship and prayer, also, once we got there some of the men asked us to sing a song in English, so we chose to sing 'our God is an Awsome God'. I found it amazing, we began to sing louder and louder, and I really believe that declaring that our God is awesome and that he reigns change the atmosphere in that place. The whole night people were willing to talk to us, people who didn't speak much Spanish at all were able to understand prayers and have conversations with people. I had so much fun, everybody I spoke to was in a really good mood and would laugh and make me laugh. It really was a great night.

On Wednesday we had our first Spanish lesson, she started us off nicely! Our teacher is really really lovely, and had a b-e-a-utiful house. It takes a little while to get there, but it is in a really nice area so it's nice walking around there. We had another lesson on Friday, which was a bit more difficult, usually I am in a group with one other person, and we are the people with the least Spanish knowledge. However, this week the first two groups were merged for various reasons, so we were in a group of 5. We started on grammar, and I think I will find it difficult seeing as I have never had to learn another language ever before!

Also on Friday, Rachel and I were leading the prayer meeting. We decided to discuss Cat and Dog theology. It basically is about with Cat theology we look at ourselves and think how great god is to US and the focus is inwards. Dog theology is about praising God because he is God not because of anything he has done for us. We were trying to get people to think more like Dogs! i.e. you pet me, you feed me and you take care of me therefor you must be God, as apposed to the cat theology which is you pet me, you feed me, and you take care of me therefor I must be God!! We began by reading psalms and singing some worship songs, and we had some time of prayer and then we got a huge canvas of paper and got people to write all their names and the characters of God. We now have this hanging up in our house, it looks really good, and has so many different names on it. Great stuff.

Today we are planning on visiting one of the craft markets, which is going to be alot of fun! Maybe some lucky people will get presents from this place in the future!

Please pray
*that my Spanish will move quickly, the last Spanish class really was very difficult, I want to make fast progress and I am going to have to work very quickly.
* Thank God for Tuesday night, and pray that He will continue to move in La Vega and that His work will continue when we are not visiting because we are only there on Tuesday nights.
*Praise God for who he is and his characters!