2008

Happy New Year to all. I hope this year has started out well for everyone. The Mennonite Church here had an end of the year supper for the whole church and Amy and I baked bread for the meal. I also helped with many other preparations for that supper. I am looking forward to seeing what 2008 has in store for me. Somethings that I already know are in a week and a half my host family and I will be traveling 20 hours by car to the city of Barranquilla where my host family is originally from. (They moved to La Mesa last February). Barranquilla is a city on the Carribbean coast. We will be spending 2 weeks there with their family and friends as well as at the beach. Then when I get back school will be starting and my role as a teacher will begin. I am also going to continue to be involved in teaching sunday school, youth group and in the Anapoima project. Also I mentioned in my last blog that I have a new ministry opportunity so I guess I will explain that more. Starting in February I will be helping with the prision ministry that the Mennonite Church has here. The story behind that is that apparently there is a North American in the jail here and my host dad asked him if he would like someone to translate the preaching and share the gospel in English and the inmate said yes he would so I will be translating and sharing the gospel with him. I am really excited about that. So that is what I will be doing with the remainder of my time here. Some year long goals that I would like to see accomplished for 2008 are the things I mentioned above, then after RAD I would like to get a job and find my own apartment and live on my own again since I really enjoyed that before. Those are some goals for this year.