Spirito Santo ven.

I find it easier to journal about thing and then after write down what I was journaling on here!! So...

9/25: Wow my first time on a train! We are in Ururo and the train will bring us to Uyuni in nine hours! We just met some awesome Isrealites and they gave us dates from the desert in Isreal which was amazing. So basically everything is going great. I got a hot shower finally and the women in my hotel room just did a "dirty" which was discusting but I have air freshener and ear plugs and thats all I need. I saw pictures of the Salt Flats and it is beautiful! I can wait to see God's glory in the mountains tomorrow. I got to talk to my mom and my grandma on the phone this morning and that was SO awesome. I miss my family.

9/26: We are now at the Salt Flatts and it is probably the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It goes on for forever and forever and its just beautiful white-ness! We took tons of pictures and it is only the first day! I can't wait to swim in the hot pools on Monday! There are a lot of Europeans on the tour but we are in a land cruiser with two awesome Canadians named John and Jillian. I'm not sure wshere we are headed to next but I'm curious to see it!

9/27: Wow what a day! We are now in a freezing cold hotel on the farthest place on our journey. Tomorrow we are goibng to the geysers and hot poolsm - woot! Thank you lOrd for keeping us safe and secure.

9/28: HA. I can't believe I just got into the pool when it was -10 degrees celsius outside!! Right when we were about to get out our coats blew into the water, so I am officially without a coat for the rest of the trip. YIKES! It was completely worth it though. got a nasty cut on my foot somehow so I am now walking around in socks and flip flops and it is pretty hilarious! I finally got a shower today after not taking one the whole trip HAH. We visited the train cemetery today with trains from England in the early 1900's. My camera wasn't working but thank you LORD I fixed it. Jillian was sick yesterday so she couldn't go to the pools (bummer!). And Raul lost hissunglasses that I specifically picked out for him! Lame-o. But luckily the Canadians had a good taste in music and that made everything MUCH more beautiful :) We had a flat tire this morning but it wasn't too cold outside then so it was nice to getn out and stretch out legs.

9/29: I am not on the 12 hour train back and I'm feeling kinda sick. I lost my contact this morning so I'm seeing really funky right now. I am happy to get back to Cochabamba but I am glad I made friends with the Santa Cruz company :) Praise God, your glory Father fills the earth.




Now I'm safe and home and tired and heading to prayer. hahh

Mountains

leave tonight at eight o clock for Sucre, the capital of Bolivia. I will be there a week with a team of mostly Germans working with the church youth there. Then we will get on another 12 hour bus ride to Posoti, which is in the highhh mountains, and we will be ministering to small pueblos and doing promo for the Cima Conference in January in Argentina. I am basically excited beyond belief, but I will write more when I get back :)

p.s. It was great to talk to my mom and Rachel today!

Reality

Reality has never been apart of my brain, I try to keep it at arm's length and not worry about it, but there it is.. trying to get in my head and knock some common sense into me. But here in Bolivia I am really tapping into reality and learning how different the world is from the "Kingdom" world. God's kingdom of people who are totally devoted to Him an His will.

Yesterday I went to the girls home and I was shocked to find the 3 girls that weren't in school totally unsupervised. There wasn't an adult! Ahhh I was thinking how awful it was for those girls to be alone all day... doing nothing. What if someone comes in and hurts them? What are they eating? But then the Lord quietly tapped me on the shoulder and said "You must not know that they have more than most of the kids in the country" And He was right, of course. Most kids here never gets watched, they have no parents, no food, no anything! So I was praising God for what they DID have, and just praying that the Lord will bless them. I was walking around the home and looking into the rooms and I saw a little photo that was cut out. I went up to it to see who it was, and it was Colleen Greer! I was so blessed to see that the girls still remember the kindness of the teams that came last year.

Also yesterday I chaperoned a movie at the school for all the honor roll students..and the first graders ended up seeing G.I.Joe which was completely inappropriate but thats a WHOLE other can of worms that is causing me to feel homesick. But the Lord is with me and will protect me, He heals me and restores my tired body. If you read this, be praying for me please. Yayaya woop.