January 19, 2009

January 19, 2009

Today was good. I start my classes at 8 o’clock now, so that allows for time to go and do activities in the afternoon. Plus it’s not as cold.
I decided not to move after all. I feel the Lord prompting me to stay, and I really like my family, so I want to stay.
This weekend I stayed a la casa de los Greene’s (the missionaries). I had a great time. It was really wonderful to be welcomed into their home like that. We went to an English speaking church last night, and it was so wonderful. I didn’t even know any of the worship songs, but worshipping God with music was like water in a desert…I almost cried so many times! Next week they are having communion…I am sooo excited for that! The preaching was good too. It was actually a video from a series from somebody in the United States. But it was uplifting. About the will of God.
I find myself sucking up every ounce of anything that has to do with the Lord. My teacher is a Christian, (a non-catholic Christian,) and her and I talk about the Lord when we can. Its really a God thing that I have her, because she is one of 24 teachers, and is the only Christian. I know that God set that up…With me in mind!!! It is so relieving to think that He thinks about me. When I get really scared of feel really lonely or don’t know what to do, I try to focus on the fact that Jesus sees me. He is aware of me and what I’m doing, and God is watching me. I don’t know what He’s going to do, but I know that He sees me and I trust Him, so that is enough for me, and it is so comforting.
We got a new girl in the house today. She’s from the US. I really like her – her name is Rebekah (sp?). We are going to watch the inauguration tomorrow at some bar…I don’t know where. It should be cool; many Americans coming together and getting excited about something. It doesn’t matter if you voted for him or not, its exciting!

Well, I also went to a coffee farm today! You can’t imagine what that was like for me! (maybe you can…) It was so cool to see the machines and the cherries and the trees and the farm. It was nítido (neat). The tour was in Spanish so I didn’t get everything, but I got the gist of how the whole process goes. I knew some of it already, so I explained a lot to our group. It was fun though. After that we went a fairtrade macadamia nut farm, which was so beautiful (as was our tour guide, Ricardo, haha). Después (after), we went to a small town called San Antonio, where we went into this warehouse type building where some indigenous ladies showed us the customary clothes and wedding traditions of the Guatemalan people. It was really fun because she used the audience for an example! (see pictures on facebook…) After we came home we had a good dinner and laughed a lot at the pictures I took of the day.

I think I need another picture-option, because some of ya’ll don’t have facebook. I will do a flickr or something. I’ll let you know.

Continue to pray for me, that the Holy Spirit will open up the Word to me as I read more and more…

Love you all,

Noelle