update

hello everyone! Thank you all for your continued prayers, it means so much to know that people are praying for me!

We kept somewhat busy this week, which has been a blessing. We got to take the new girls to the Casa de Alegria, the home for girls, and they absolutely loved it. It was a great experience for me as well, getting another chance to love on these girls. It still is surprising to me on how fast God can change my attitude. On the way there I was pretty tired, and hardly felt the energy to go. When we got there, we were welcomed with hugs and kisses, totally made my day. I felt the love of God coming from them and the joy that comes with fellowship, service, and love. great experience.

We got another opportunity to provide medical services at a school somewhat near our house. I must say I am getting fairly comfortable in providing fluoride treatment to kids. Its getting to be a lot of fun because I feel like I have the Spanish phrases down a lot better to explain what is going on. Still a long way off from mastering the language but its fun that they can now understand a little bit of what I am trying to say.

Me and one of the guys here were able to pray for the patients as well this week, which is something that I constantly see God renewing my spirit through as well as teaching me. I'm seeing that even though we may not be healing people physically, it is an awesome witness to them that they are receiving prayer. Several of the patients have been very encouraging about praying with us, and have looked overjoyed when we ask them if we can pray. Its fun too thinking about the opportunity we have to witness to the staff at the hospital as well, both the believers and non-believers that work there.

I got an opportunity to shadow the PT at our hospital the other day as well. It was interesting seeing the exercises she would do with them, I noticed that it was all very applicable to what I can do at home. It was a little hard to understand her at times, but she was very patient.

We had a lot of people over last night to help our host family pack. I had a great time talking to one of them, learned more about Spanish, and was really encouraged by his love for the Lord. It was a cool lesson, because I gotta say, its been hard for me to work on conversation with people who only speak Spanish. Its very frustrating trying to get a sentence across and them still not be able to understand what your saying. But it was really neat seeing that it was possible, hard, but possible to talk about the Lord with a language barrier. We were able to worship, as well, and at one point we had 3 different languages singing the same song (one of the girls speaks manderin). Overall, a very neat experience.
Our host family here has gotten news that their visas have been approved... they are leaving for Canada this coming friday! yes, I am excited for them, however, its gonna be hard with them leaving. Right now our group of volunteers is at 3, with another leaving tuesday.

Prayer Requests:
-Peace with having to "start over". Since everyone I met initially is leaving as of next week, I will be with a whole new group of volunteers, as well as a new host family. I know God can use this to teach me and mold me, and I'm looking forward to the lesson. Please be praying that I will be a blessing to this new group and family.
-I am anticipating a slower week coming up due to the fact that the host family is trying to get all packed up and ready to move. Please pray for discipline to use my time wisely and to draw closer to God through it (its hard for me to feel inactive and unproductive)
-lastly, please pray that I would "be interuptable" and alert in order to the listen to the Lords promptings during these last few weeks. Its weird thinking that there is only a couple left, and I'm praying that I can keep my mind focused on being here and making the most out of this opportunity.

Thanks again for all of your support!
*Gods love*