raining

So i´m here in Quemchi, listening to the hard rain... again. The rain pants, rain coat, and big rubber boots i bought before coming have definitely been one of the best physical investments i´ve made.
Last night we went over to Ana and Carlos´s (along with Paolina &her daughters and Juan Carlos) house for a food ¨pichanga,¨ i think it´s called, to watch the Under 20 WORLD CUP Chile vs. Argentina, see pictures from their vacation, and show pictures we took of Paolina´s daughter at her school winter show. It was raining... again. We had a really wonderful time with them, and i hope they are being blessed by the friendship we are forming. As i pray for this family, God is really giving me His love for them. They are really such neat people.
2 nights ago Maria (age 15) and Denis (age 13) came over to the cabaña to dance to my dance workout videos with me. (Travis stayed in the other room and studied.) Then, we all had a late dinner together, goofed off a little while longer, and the girls left. It had been raining the whole evening... again. During my time with these girls, the realization hit me - i´m old. As we were talking and it was getting later and later and later, i kept thinking, ¨These girls need to get home!! It´s a school night!!!¨ And just during different coversations about boys and dating and all that, i thought to myself, ¨wow... i´ve turned into a real fuddy-duddy...¨
But, then, as i was praying and thinking about my mentor Andie, well... she was kind of a fuddy-duddy sometimes, too. BUT, she impacted my life so so greatly that the fact that maybe she wasn´t COOL (what i thought of as ¨cool¨) all the time didn´t matter. She was the first person ever to have commissioned me in the Lord´s work. And so... maybe i am a fuddy-duddy, fome, at times to these girls, but i just pray that i would love them and guide them towards Christ as Andie loved and guided me. May these girls know and love God, and may i get to be a part of commissioning them.
lovingly