Church, Repelling and an impulsive viaje!

Hey y´all!

Just thought I would shoot out an update before I head off travelling for about a week. The past week has been pretty good. On Sunday Joy, Heinz and Ben came into town for the day and we got to grab lunch. In the evening Terryl and I went to check out a church that, randomly enough, one of my 5th grade students told me about a few weeks ago. (That story goes....one of my students came up to me with the phrase ¨Lay down my pride¨ and asked me what it meant in Spanish. I told him, and asked him where he had heard it, and he told me it was a Hillsong song that he heard at home. Upon hearing that I asked if and where his family goes to church, and he said at Cristo, tu unica esperanza).

Anyways, we went on Sunday night at 8, and the service was awesome. The best worship music I´ve heard in Chile, and even though the pastor spoke kind of fast I understood most of it. The only drawback is that it´s from about 8-10:30pm on Sundays...which doesn´t SOUND late, but this week at least I was pretty tired by the middle of the service. I´m hoping to go back in a week or two though, so hopefully I´ll be more rested :-)

Today was Tuesday, which means the kids were especially difficult. I sent 4 kids out of class in one of my classes (the last one of the day), and it was very frustrating. BUT after work I got to go repelling for the first time here in Chile which was AMAZING. Definitely might be a hobby that I start up back in the States :-)

And, breaking news.....tomorrow I´m headed to PERU for a week!!! It was kind of an impulsive decision....I decided on Sunday to ask permission to take a long weekend (6 days) to travel up to Peru. I´m pretty excited, although slightly nervous, only because i´m travelling ALONE. I´ve heard it´s safe as long as I´m smart, but prayers for this would be very much appreciated. I´m leaving tomorrow (Wed.) in the afternoon and arrive back next Wednesday morning. I´ll be staying most of the time (outside of the 48 hours total of travel time) in the city of Arequipa, Peru. And of course will update with the experience upon my (hopefully safe) return :-)


That´s all from Chile now...I hope that everyone is doing well....I miss you all!

- Steph -