We have had a discouraging past couple of days. Constantly being unable to communicate with the majority of people around us has become really frustrating and honestly pretty disheartening. Making this our home seems to be a little more difficult than just being visitors. There are power blackouts, insane drivers, grocery stores filled with foods with labels I can't read, and no Mexican food. We stand out and I often feel invasive since I'm the one who cannot speak their language. Feeling so alone and discouraged really put me in a spot where I doubted what I could with my time here. We spent a lot of time praying and talking about where our hearts were and what we needed to be learning in this moment. The main lesson we learned from these hard days was that even though we are out living like independent grown ups, we still need to be dependent on God. Without staying focused on Him, what is even the point of being here? I am so thankful for the trials to come because I know they will be really important lessons to learn. However, the refreshing days hold lessons just as wonderful. Today, Emily read to me 2 Corinthians 6, and that encouragement from the Lord was amazing. I would type it all out here, but instead you should all go look it up (:
Our first day of "work" was yesterday! We held a registration for any students wanting to take the English class from us. We had to divide them up into intermediate and advanced levels based on their English speaking skills when we met them. There were 30 people to sign up, and we plan on having a class from 10-12 a.m. and another one 4-6 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Our next few days will be very busy as we start making lesson plans and getting ourselves organized. It's a very intimidating task to try to teach students all around the same age as you. Hopefully they can learn a lot from us in our time here, and we hope to build some amazing friendships!
I hope everyone is doing well stateside! (I feel pretty cool that I get to say that.)
Our first day of "work" was yesterday! We held a registration for any students wanting to take the English class from us. We had to divide them up into intermediate and advanced levels based on their English speaking skills when we met them. There were 30 people to sign up, and we plan on having a class from 10-12 a.m. and another one 4-6 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Our next few days will be very busy as we start making lesson plans and getting ourselves organized. It's a very intimidating task to try to teach students all around the same age as you. Hopefully they can learn a lot from us in our time here, and we hope to build some amazing friendships!
I hope everyone is doing well stateside! (I feel pretty cool that I get to say that.)
You and Emily are getting to live out James 1:2-4 "Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way." Or, as Marines say "Pain is weakness leaving the body". LY!!
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