Meetings and Play Time

We finally got to meet today with Bolo and Jaime who are our teammates to discuss the what, how, when and why’s of us being here. It was good to reconnect and plan for the future of our work here. Of course right now most of what we are doing is settling in but after that we will be working on the continuation of those that were part of the Let’s Start Talking program just before we got here. Another thing Travis will do, probably starting in January is teaching some classes at the institute which I will start referring to as CEDI which is the new name for the school since the paperwork has been finalized. So don’t forget I will start referring to the school as CEDI. It’s a long technical name in Spanish so I won’t bother going into it all for you, so just CEDI. Another thing will be starting on the bible studies that Bolo and Jaime already have going on in the city, worshipping with the existing church right now and for me learning to speak better Spanish. It may not seem like a lot to many of you but trust me that is a brief statement of what we will end up doing. I am sure once we get more settled in, you will hear of more work that we are doing.

After meeting with the guys for quite awhile and the kids having played with the secretary of CEDi’s kids we needed to let our kids do something fun for a bit, so we hopped into a taxi and took them to play at the mall. They have a place called PlayGo, it’s like a big Chucky Cheese and Dinobouncers in one(for those who know those two places in Regina). So lots of games and rides to play on as well as those blow-up castles and slides. Those are what our kids like the best, to jump and slide down, it sure lets them wear off their exorbitant amounts of energy that they have. And it’s a good place for us as well because we can check our email while they are playing. While there we were able to stop by Coral (another grocery/all-in-one store) and picked up some heaters. Yes I know, it’s crazy but the mountains is not all that warm at night. Especially when you live in concrete buildings and have tiled floors. So when it gets to be about 5 or 6 degrees out at night it gets a little chilly in the house. Let me just say how much my toes love me now!

While the kids were taking their naps, Travis headed back to CEDI to meet with some girls who have been studying Portuguese. They were having a test in a few days and wanted to make sure that they were speaking it well enough as it was an oral test. When he got back Travis told me how he was struggling to help them enough since he’d already started switching to Spanish in his mind. So he offered me to help the next day. Yeah a great way to confuse my mind too!