Spanish week 1 overview

  Well, I have so much to report!!  This weeks classes went well...not without an element of awkwardness however.  My professor is a younger man and I am his only student...this makes it very uncomfortable at times when we do certain exercises.  All this to say, please be praying for wisdom as I deal with it all.  Also, I have had the opportunity to talk to him about God, and have found out that he is an Atheist.  So, this is a huge opportunity for me to shine God´s light into the darkness!!! Please pray fervently about this!  I want to petition you all to pray that I would share God´s love but that it wouldn´t be perceived wrong.  This is my concern.
  Not only have I been given the opportunity to share with my professor but also other students at Escuela Fronteras.  It has been good for me, in that I am the one who has to answer their question. I can no longer hide behind my parents relationship with Christ but must answer out of my own personal relationship...Good stuff! 

Our wonderful table full of food.

Along with Spanish classes I have had some language practice time with people at bible study as well as with a Chilean couple who joined us for our Thanksgiving celebration that we held yesterday.  It is so very exhausting and frustrating at times because I cannot communicate at the level I wish.

After the feast we had some fellowship and fun...I was too tired to join in on the fun. 

 Yesterday evening we decorated the house for Christmas...it all looks so festive!  But it doesn´t seem like it is that time of year!  Where has the time gone??  And what makes it even worse is the fact that we are approaching summer...therefore wearing shorts and singing Christmas carols.  Doesn´t feel quite right.  But then we must remember the true reason we celebrate Christmas and the whole Christmas scene...hmm, I guess snow, hot chocolate, and sitting around the fire, are not the things that make Christmas so special but rather the Babe who was born, who became a man (yet still God), and died for the sins that we heartlessly commit.  This is why we celebrate Christmas.  I hope that each one of you remembers this, this year, and doesn´t get wrapped up in the giving but opens the gift. 

Our Christmas tree...

Juliana enjoys time spent with ´Abbie´...