a lovely morning.

up at 8:30.

showered and downstairs by 8:45.

quiet time from then to 9:15.

up on the roof folding laundry until 9:30.

here writing…

i love meeting the people here. i love the kisses on the cheek and the kind words spoken. i love to see people loving Jesus in this hard land and i love to come beside them and urge them to keep going; to keep pressing on. that’s why we’re here.

a few pictures here.

i´m sure some of you are thinking, “what kind of missions trip is this where she can post so often?”  the kind where people take naps every afternoon (except for us) and the kind where you have a brother who brings a laptop with him.  and besides, today and tomorrow are our days off.  from thursday we´re bookin´ it until we make our way to madrid, spain and fly home.

today we have shopping bags in our hands, money that´s left our wallets, and more stuff to try to fit in our luggage.  i realized i have issues when i find myself in spain and buying a t-shirt that has “England” on it.  oh well.

there are days when i suddenly see all my flaws and all the things i´m doing wrong and get so discouraged.  in a sense, being here is easy.  perhaps i´ll stay for awhile.

looks like i need busy days again.  i´ve had too much time to focus on me today.  : )

tonight the girls cook dinner.  we´ve moved to the pastor´s house since he´s gone away for a bit and we now have a kitchen!  no more pb&j for a few nights.  he also has DSL so perhaps i´ll upload some photos.

i do believe that this will be a short one. i’m tired and looking at my mattress that’s leaning up against the bookshelf in the room looks quite comfortable right now. i’m surrounded by hanging clothes and the sound of everyone making ham and cheese sandwhiches in the other room keeps me amused. i’m sitting on a metal chair and the laptop is in the curtain of the window that i’m sitting in front of (one can only get the wireless in certain spots). i’m not sure how i did three weeks last year. i’m thinking that a whole year difference has made quite the change in me. i’m so tired.

i saw the moon tonight as we drove back from the outreach and i thought of home. i can’t see the stars here (which is quite sad) but at least the moon is still with me. it’s somehow comforting.

a young girl recieved Christ tonight. daniel was witness to it and told me the story and i found myself beeming the whole time.

i talked lots with my British girls and got to know them better. i love ‘em and love their accents.

writing on this is a lot easier and faster than writing a bazillion emails to everyone that i love so much, so forgive me for not getting a personal note in your inbox, but i think i’ll do this for the rest of the time.

go to here for some oh-so-wonderful shots taken on my camera.

so i´m here in Spain.  after a rather ineresting start to the trip, i´m here and am enjoying it.  people lost money, we were personally escorted to our plane in JFK because the lines were so long and we didn´t get checked in soon enough, and after i got here i realized that all my flip-flops weren´t in my bag anymore.  i have a feeling they were stolen (although who would steal Old Navy flip-flops?!) but after i got over the initial frustration and tears (yes, after traveling for 32 hours with not very much sleep i was quite upset about my dear flip-flops) i came to the realization that they´re only flip-flops and not that big of a deal.

it´s beautiful here.  spain is always sunny, but it´s not as hot as it was last year (which i liked).  it´s just as busy and people are out just as late (we ate dinner last night at 12:30). 

a little bit about what i´m doing… we´ll be participating in a concert style outreach tonight where we´ll do dramas, julia will play, and the whole team will play.  we´re doing church tomorrow (kelly and i are to head up children´s church) and then a beach outreach.  after that i´m not quite sure what´s going on.  we aren´t always told everything that we´re to do.  : ) 

i´m so excited to be here and to serve the church of Spain.  i spent this morning cleaning the church with Kurt´s wife, Melanie and after listening to her talk realized how young the church here is.  they seem like such young Christians and they need so much care.  last night i met two young women who attended the conference my daddy, danica, and mr. and mrs. hull went to and it was amazing to hear how that conference has really spurred them on to dream bigger about where they want to see education go in this country.  yes, i´m excited to be here – even if it is for a short while.

i´m at an internet cafe (one of the only places that one can be in an air conditioned room, but it´s too cold for me) and have a camera pointed directly at my face.  looks like they´re tightening up security or something.  i only got 20 minutes and have already used up 14.  i want to look around a bit on the internet, so i´m done now.