Hello! First off I just want to give a big thank you to all my wonderful supporters who sent me money so I could come to Chile! It has been such an amazing experience and I couldn't of done it without all you guys! Thank you so much!
Chile has been so wonderful! (It's not really chilly either.. Only at night and while I'm typing this I'm a bit cold haha!) This weekend we had our first free day and we went shopping at the local mall ( yessssssss ) it was so nice and refreshing to go shopping! The mall was very nice and looked liked a regular mall! It was weird because the nice mall was in the middle of a poor town. We got off the old bus and walked into a beautiful mall! Weird. I got a cute summer Chilean dress! If it's not too cold in Atlanta when we get back I will prob wear it for my ywam graduation :) lol
On Saturday we went and played with the kids of the town we had been working with all week and gave them silly bands and stuffed animals. They were so grateful for all the new toys. We imagined they lost a lot of their toys in the tsunami when their homes were destroyed so they were happy to get new ones. It was a very precious moment for us all. Seeing their faces light up over a simple stuffed animal, Makes me appreciate all my stuff back at home, and yet again makes me realize how incredibly blessed I am. After we played with the kids we said our goodbyes to all the people we worked with all week. It was so sad. Goodbyes are never fun:( once we finished our sad goodbyes we got on a bus and headed straight to the next church we are going to be working with this week. We sat through a long 3 hour church service all in Spanish. Whew I wish I knew more Spanish! I'm sure the service was wonderful, if we only knew what they were saying! Haha it was a long day but a good one!
Today (Monday) was our first day at the church, and we worked with the youth all day learning new skits and dramas to perform this week when we go evangelizing. It was fun and brought me back to the days of learning human videos at Desert Springs :) all of us on my team know the "everything" skit by lifehouse and have performed it at our own home churches. We thought it was cool we all knew it and had performed it before:) we also went around and prayer walked through the town we will be evangelizing in. It was a powerful time. I know God is going to do some powerful things this week in our lives and the people we evangelize to! I'm excited to see! We even learned how to play some drums! Our team sounds pretty good! We all feel like were on a drumline haha! We all got matching rayban sunglasses at the mall as well, so with us all wearing our raybans and playing drums we feel.. Well.. Pretty legit ;) haha!
Today I got a bit sick as well. Something didn't sit right in my tummy and it was no fun!!! But with some prayers from back home and from team members I am feeling a little bit better! I'm hoping it stays away and I feel 100% tomorrow! Please be praying for me that it stays away and doesn't come back! It's no fun being sick away from home without my amazing mother to take care of me!
Today one of our translators, one of the girls we are staying with(Paulina) planted a seed in my head. She is in school to be a dentist so we chat about teeth all the time. She told me about a Christian program called Mercy Ships. It's a ship that sails around Africa and does medical mission trips! I have always wanted to do a dental assisting mission trip so researched it when I got home and a dental assistant position was available for this upcoming September! I am def going to be looking more into it but I just thought it was so cool and had to share my exciting news! Lol
I hope all is well back at home! Love and miss you all so incredibly much! I know it says I am online facebook chat, but it's just an app I have on my phone that I always leave open so people can chat me, but half the time I am never by my phone so I get all your messages after you chat me and get offline! Haha I should prob change my online status...(it's usually on so I can chat with Haley, who is in Thailand) but I'm sorry If i missed your chat! The best way to communicate with me is through facebook messages. :) ok off to have some dinner! It's almost 10... All meals are usually 2 or 3 hours late, And the sun doesn't set till about 9:45 pm so it's very weird! Everyday we say the same thing.. When it's 6 pm it looks like it is 2 pm and were all like "IT'S 6!!!??" haha! It's funny:) ok love you all!
Jeremiah 29:11
Jessica
Chile has been so wonderful! (It's not really chilly either.. Only at night and while I'm typing this I'm a bit cold haha!) This weekend we had our first free day and we went shopping at the local mall ( yessssssss ) it was so nice and refreshing to go shopping! The mall was very nice and looked liked a regular mall! It was weird because the nice mall was in the middle of a poor town. We got off the old bus and walked into a beautiful mall! Weird. I got a cute summer Chilean dress! If it's not too cold in Atlanta when we get back I will prob wear it for my ywam graduation :) lol
On Saturday we went and played with the kids of the town we had been working with all week and gave them silly bands and stuffed animals. They were so grateful for all the new toys. We imagined they lost a lot of their toys in the tsunami when their homes were destroyed so they were happy to get new ones. It was a very precious moment for us all. Seeing their faces light up over a simple stuffed animal, Makes me appreciate all my stuff back at home, and yet again makes me realize how incredibly blessed I am. After we played with the kids we said our goodbyes to all the people we worked with all week. It was so sad. Goodbyes are never fun:( once we finished our sad goodbyes we got on a bus and headed straight to the next church we are going to be working with this week. We sat through a long 3 hour church service all in Spanish. Whew I wish I knew more Spanish! I'm sure the service was wonderful, if we only knew what they were saying! Haha it was a long day but a good one!
Today (Monday) was our first day at the church, and we worked with the youth all day learning new skits and dramas to perform this week when we go evangelizing. It was fun and brought me back to the days of learning human videos at Desert Springs :) all of us on my team know the "everything" skit by lifehouse and have performed it at our own home churches. We thought it was cool we all knew it and had performed it before:) we also went around and prayer walked through the town we will be evangelizing in. It was a powerful time. I know God is going to do some powerful things this week in our lives and the people we evangelize to! I'm excited to see! We even learned how to play some drums! Our team sounds pretty good! We all feel like were on a drumline haha! We all got matching rayban sunglasses at the mall as well, so with us all wearing our raybans and playing drums we feel.. Well.. Pretty legit ;) haha!
Today I got a bit sick as well. Something didn't sit right in my tummy and it was no fun!!! But with some prayers from back home and from team members I am feeling a little bit better! I'm hoping it stays away and I feel 100% tomorrow! Please be praying for me that it stays away and doesn't come back! It's no fun being sick away from home without my amazing mother to take care of me!
Today one of our translators, one of the girls we are staying with(Paulina) planted a seed in my head. She is in school to be a dentist so we chat about teeth all the time. She told me about a Christian program called Mercy Ships. It's a ship that sails around Africa and does medical mission trips! I have always wanted to do a dental assisting mission trip so researched it when I got home and a dental assistant position was available for this upcoming September! I am def going to be looking more into it but I just thought it was so cool and had to share my exciting news! Lol
I hope all is well back at home! Love and miss you all so incredibly much! I know it says I am online facebook chat, but it's just an app I have on my phone that I always leave open so people can chat me, but half the time I am never by my phone so I get all your messages after you chat me and get offline! Haha I should prob change my online status...(it's usually on so I can chat with Haley, who is in Thailand) but I'm sorry If i missed your chat! The best way to communicate with me is through facebook messages. :) ok off to have some dinner! It's almost 10... All meals are usually 2 or 3 hours late, And the sun doesn't set till about 9:45 pm so it's very weird! Everyday we say the same thing.. When it's 6 pm it looks like it is 2 pm and were all like "IT'S 6!!!??" haha! It's funny:) ok love you all!
Jeremiah 29:11
Jessica
HOORAY! I'm excited for your updates! have so much fun in Chile! I wanna see pictures!
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