Hello from chilly Chile! It's been pretty cold the past few days, as we've woken up to frosted rooftops and grass, but it's incredible to see beautiful snow-capped mountains!!
We are currently in Puerto Montt on the mainland with our team and the church here. It's been a good time of getting to know our teammates (who are VERY fun and good people) and getting involved with the church here, visiting with members and attending small groups. Last week on Wednesday we went on a day-trip to the island of Chiloe to meet different believers and to get to know our town/home of Quemchi. We met with the mayor of the town, the director of education in the school where we'll be teaching, and the teacher we'll be working with. I'm looking forward to getting to know her better. She also mentioned that she teaches religion classes, and that we could come share about "our religion," in addition to English classes. So, that was a wild open door! While walking around the town, we met up with the director of education for all of the little islands. We will be spending part of our time travelling to the islands to teach English there as well.
Saturday the church held a marriage seminar and we were responsible for a "creative workshop" with the kids. It was wild and chaotic but also a lot of fun. I led a short devotional on how God is creative and He gave us creativity too that we can use to worship Him. We sang songs and we did a lot of movement, pretending, and dancing. Then, we prepared a skit on the parable of the 99 sheep and 1 lost sheep. Sunday morning the kids did it in church, and it was just a lot of fun getting to be a part of that.
Tomorrow we leave for a 3 day trip into the islands to get to know the schools where we'll be teaching and meeting people out there. It sounds good... and cold. We are taking sleeping bags and hiker's backpacks - honestly, i think the hiker backpack is as large as me - haha.
On Sunday after church we leave for Quemchi to move into our little cabana. It's both exciting and intimidating!
Sorry it's not a super-interesting blog entry, but i thought i'd write the latest! More to come later!
1 comment:
hey happy birthday... i pray that you are doing well in that part of the world!
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