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This week, SENDAS, the Seminary where Liz and I are volunteering, is having very important visitors. They are something along the lines of a board of directors, and they make decisions about the future of the school. Yesterday was their big meeting, but Thursday was their tour day. Since the entire tour was obviously going to be in Spanish, Liz and I had the opportunity to travel with them on their tour as part of our Spanish class. We went to a large rain-forest-type nature preserve, where we were able to see several kinds of animals and some beautiful waterfalls. The park was amazing, and we really enjoyed getting to spend time with the board.
Right after we got back from this excursion, we changed clothes real quick and got ready for our second English class. We began teaching English on Tuesday, had our second class on Thursday, and starting next week, we'll be teaching English on Monday and Thursday evenings. This week, we had one student, but we were told that starting on Monday, we should have five. We're really enjoying our time teaching, as well as our time learning more Spanish.
Today, we rode the bus into town, bought some groceries, walked around the city center for a while, then rode our bus back. In reality, that's a bit more interesting than it sounds. :-) As far as I know, this was our first trip where the entire trip and route were planned by us and we weren't meeting anyone else on the other end of a bus ride. I know that things like that won't sound impressive in the least to most people, but it's a fun thing when it becomes more familiar.
Once again, for anyone who has been praying for us, sending us encouraging notes, praying for our support-raising, or giving sacrificially to make all this possible, Thank You Very Much. Liz got a report concerning our financial situation today, and I'm happy to say that people have already donated about 75% of our budget for the year, and another 10% has been pledged. We can't thank you all enough for your love and the support that you've been in this venture. We've only been here for about 6 weeks, and you all have given 9 months worth of support already! Thank you ever so much again, we really appreciate you!
If you'd like to join with us in prayer for a moment, we would really appreciate prayers for our English classes that are developing. As we mentioned before, we've only met one of our students, but we're scheduled to have 5 on Monday. Neither of us have taught English before (but we've both taken classes to teach us how), but our first couple classes have gone great. Please be in prayer for the classes as they begin to grow. Thank you again, so very much!
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