Pupusas and more

Wow I can't believe I have been in El Salvador for a week already..time is just flying by. I'm still loving El Salvador!!!The past couple days I've had pupusas and they are so great!! They are seriously my favorite food!!

On Thursday I chilled and worked on the English website for the church and worked on backing it up as well as doing some other little things of work. Then that night I hung out with Luis and we went to Buffalo Wings at this outdoor mall thing that they have in El Salvador, which was really sweet. Then he showed me all these sweet sights around San Salvador...like we went to this place called Antiguo Cuscatlán and its a famous part of the city and there is this park there that looks out over a big part of the city...its near the massive US embassy....then he showed me downtown San Salvador (like where all the national buildings are like the national palace, national theater and the national cathedral). So it was cool to be able to see some of the parts of ES I haven't seen before. So it was sweet but tiring.

Then on Friday I chilled that morning and played with Victor Raul and Sivita. Then in the afternoon I went with Sarah and Jorge to the offices and Sarah gave me some more sweet ideas of what I can do to help out with La Red (like I'm going to part we are going to have a sleepover for the girls in La Red and I'm going to spend some more time just building relationships with the girls down here, we are also trying to coordinate with the University so our church team can play against the University team and use that as an outreach tool.) to get some work done on the Spanish church website, but I ended up running a lot of errands with Sarah, which was awesome, cause we just got to talk more about the culture and I shared my testimony with her. Then once we got back to the offices we did some more work, but then the band was going to have band practice.

So then I went with Sarah and Jorge to go have dinner over at Jorge's sister's house. First we picked up Jorge's mom...she is totally awesome!!! She welcomed me into her home and was like this is your home also...it was just really touching, how she welcomed me like part of her family like immediately. The hospitality down here is amazing. We also picked up his adorable niece!!! His niece is an amazing singer!!!:) Then we got to his sister's house which was beautiful!!! They have an adorable little girl :) We had pupusas for dinner and they were great!!! Did I mention that I love pupusas lol :) We had some great conversation and it was just fun hanging out with Jorge's family. Then his niece sang for us and it was totally awesome!!!! Then Jorge's niece, Sarah and I showed everyone else how to do the hokey pokey...it was quite entertaining. I have to say that hanging out with Jorge's family was totally awesome and one of best days that I have had in El Salvador...it was just great!! :)

I've realized that it has been hard to adapt to a couple of things here...the fact that unlike in the US where you can't go places by yourself especially walking. This has been hard for me because in the US I'm so use to being able to go where I want and not really have to worry about how dangerous its going to be. With this it results in having to stay at the house quite a bit unless I can get someone to give me a ride. This has for sure been a hard thing to adapt to because I really don't like having to stay in the house, so every chance that I get I leave the house, even if its just to the store or to go pick something up. Another cultural thing that has been interesting to adapt to is that here being out at 10pm is considered really late, which is far from the view in the US. However, here the big reason is that it is just not safe for people to be out that late...for sure an adjustment from living in Ames.

Other than that God continues to revel himself to me. God just continues to open my eyes to his amazing love and grace!! I again ask you to pray for my time here, but more importantly for the church, the people of San Salvador...that we could share Truth with them, and for my building of relationships with the women of La Red.

Well off to La Red!

Adios Amigos