My Cultural experience

So.. here I am at the end of my 'Cultural experience'. Well.. it definatly was an experience. At first I was not very happy because I realised just how poor my Spanish was, I found it so difficult to communicate, and understood very very little without using the dictionary. It was really frustrated because I was staying with a really lovely lady and she really enjoyed a good conversation and would ask me questions about my ideas about God etc, and I just wouldn't be able to express what I really wanted to say. It was an experience that I have been in before. I began to doubt whether I would be able to ever learn the language and began to doubt why I was here, did I even have the energy to try? However, on Monday on the bus I was looking at the mountains that we were passing, and I mananged to start a conversation about how if God can move these huge mountains, he can help me to learn. She understood me! And I understood her! Then in the evening we went out to watch the stars and pray together, and I saw the brightest shooting star I had ever seen, it was really a super cheesy moment, but it spoke to me about how God is really huge and powerful, but he does care about me, and he wants me to be content and he will look after me in this experience. This week I really saw how I cannot do this on my own, not for one minute. Every morning I had to pray that God would give me just the strength and the energy for the day, and again at about lunch time, and again all through the day! Ahh, it requires so much energy to constantly be working out what people are saying. It was a difficult week, yeah, but eventually I have come to understand more and more Spanish, and it's been really useful, but also I've made a really good friend in Alicia. She had so much patience with me and was so kind and generous.

During our time in the Chilean homes, another group of people doing the 'adventure team programme' stayed in our house. They basically do a little bit of what we do, and go to the South, but just do it for three weeks. I think they had a really good week here, and they have gone to the West coast now, and then I think they will make their way South after that. yerko and Corrine have gone with them, so they won't be with us for another 2 weeks. We will miss them very much!

It's back to work as usual for us though thsi week, it will be nice and comfortable to go back to speaking English!! Although I have seen I will need to practice more in the house..
It was Ben's birthday on Thursday so i think we're having a party with some of them from the church today which will be nice!

Prayer points
+Thank God for my Culurtal experience, pray that God will bless Alicia and will give her good rest (I think she also got quite tired with me staying with her) Pray that the lessons I learnt will not be lost now that I am back in my comfortable home!
+Pray for the Adventure team, pray that God will give them a really great two weeks and that he will mould and change them through this experience. Pray that they will be safe in their travelling, and pray for Yerko and Corrine that they won't miss us tooooooo much!! :P