It's been a While!

Okay, we flew to Bolivia the 15th of May. I have been in South America for almost two months!! We had a little scare in Miami, we were in line to check our bags before we boarded when the asked to see our visas. So we showed them, but our visas were only for 30 days and we didn't have a return ticket! They couldn't let us go! But because we were missionaries they decided to call the Bolivian Government. So about 10 minutes before boarding time they let us on!! We very quickly checked our bags and ran to the gate! We ended up sitting there for a while before we boarded. And from it was smooth sailing. We arrived in Cochabamba on time, and met our missionaries. The next night we went to Cami’s house and ate supper and played games and met the youth. 

I’ve seen Jesus!!

Or the Christ statue rather. Cochabamba has it’s own Christ statue! It is bigger than the one in Rio by 40 cm!!! The 3rd weekend here we hiked up to it! It was absolutely beautiful! There were people everywhere up there. It was a tin of fun! My FitBit said I climbed 59 flights of stairs! We took the Telefelico down, thats like a ski lift type thing. 

Spanish School…

We started Spanish school our second week here. It costs $10, American money, an hour!! we take 3 hours a day. It costs me about $600 a month!!! The classes are one on one for about an hour.  We have learned a lot! The school takes trips and goes camping, and hiking and such. There is a dog, belonging to the director of the school her name is Mauge pronounced Mow he. The dogs name is Sofi. She is super cute!!! she goes with us on the trips. 

Church.

Church here is organized a little differently, We have class, then we head down to the patio and visit, next the men go and pray for the service, then we go to church. In the service we have songs, opening prayer, more songs, the sermon, then communion ( we all stand up, go to the middle, take the bread and juice, Its all in different cups, then go and sit back down all the while singing.)  then we have the offering, then more songs, closing prayer, then the announcements. Then we stay around and chat. and after church we head out and eat somewhere. At 3ish we go play football, aka soccer. Then at 5:30 head home and get ready for evening service. At 6:30 we hop in a taxi and and go to another little church Villa Pagador they are a young church, only 1 1/2 years. Service here is very much like morning service. They are all Quechuan people, and work in the market. Sunday is a big market day so their evening worship is basically like a Sunday morning worship. 

Mondays at 5!

Mondays at 5 we teach English. It is one of our ministry right now, Butch wants us to focus on learning Spanish then jump into ministry. Right now we have 5 students, 3 girls and 2 boys. 

Prayers.