Hey everyone,
It has been a while since my last blog. I have been really busy as usuall. Let me start off with this, we arrived at Zamacola on the 13 of May. I had started to get sick the week before but the cold seemed like it was gone. Well it wasn't I had it for about a week and a half. I went to the doctors on a sunday the 16th and Found out i had an two ear infections. Which wasn't helping. Now the week we arrived to Zamacola, was the same week we recieved our Peruvian partners. My partners name is Eli, he is a very humble man of God and he is 23 years old. Now the 13th of may was a Thursday and the next week we started our Bible classes in Spanish. #
Now we started the hardest class first. I have a conversation in Spanish with another person but when some talks really fast in spanish I get probably one word out of every 25 words. The first week of class was really rough and I didn't get anything out of it. I had a mental break down the second day. We had to read 35 pages in Spanish and sumerize it for the next day and prensent it in Spanish infront of the class. It Takes me a long time to read in spanish, understand it all, and give a report in Spanish it seemed so impossible. So you see why I had a mental break down. Now remember that I have never spoken any Spanish before Peru. I was not saying anything to my partner that day, i went up to my room and he asked me how I was doing I didn't not saying anything to him. I just started to cry I sat down by the bed and just cried and my partner and another Peruvian came to prayed over me. Then Stephen, from Scottland, also prayed over me. After that things were a little better but not completely. I did fine on the presentation I had to give and was not nervous.
Culture Shock
Ever since I have arrived at Zamacola, my relationship with God has been dry because I have not been able to hear a sermon in my Engilsh for while. I have heard a lot of sermons and Spanish and not understood any. For two weekends we had confrences without break. Everything in Spanish too. I have been angry I need prayer for this. I am struggling with these thing but mostly I need to continue to have my alone time with God. God has shown me a lot and I feel a lot better this week and I feel a lot better I just need all of your prayers.
Love extreme is coming up soon and I really think devil is trying to split us up before it. Love Extreme starts the 11th. I am doing construction for love one and I am really excited. I am going to be lead man out at the site with Cuarto who is the forman out there. I am reviewing some construction terms this week and next so I am ready to help with making sure the volunteers know what to do. I willmake sure to take lots of pictures for my next post Love yall and good night. Thank you for all your prayers.
