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So the concert last night was…. Interesting…BAHAHAHA. We’ll leave it at that ;) This morning I was supposed to go on a hiking trip somewhere with the other American students but i decided I needed some devo. time instead :D I don’t think I can talk about how faithful and good the Lord is. It has been interesting this first week here. Getting used to a new culture, language, society, friends, and family. Every time I travel to a different place or am in a group with people who’s first language is not English, I am constantly reminded that communication and understanding is so important. Language barriers are not the greatest things in the world, but fortunately, God can and does work in more than one way;) :D.

As I have been adjusting, I have been searching to find ways in which I can be a light for Christ here in Peru. Everyone is already so friendly, kind, giving, hospitable, and loving! But alas, the Lord is opening doors starting in my very own home, with the people I am closest with and spend most of my time with. This morning I was interceding for my Peruvian family and asking that God would use me in their lives. As I finished praying for each one by name, not 30 seconds later one of my brothers stuck his head in my door and asked what I was doing. At that point in time, my Bible was wide open and I was in the middle of praying. I told him I was reading my Bible and we talked about it for a little bit. He then told me, in Spanish of course, that it is a secret desire of his to read the Bible and know God. He picked up my Bible and stared looking through it and began asking me some general questions

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PRAISE GOD!

I told him that he can join me at any point in time and he said that he’s love too! I think that sometimes we assume that God’s timing is always longer than we want but clearly, it’s sometimes instant. ;)

Went to the black market with my sisters and finally found a cheap guitar and fulbol jersey:D as soon as we got home, my entire family was SO excited that I bought a guitar they make me sing and play for then for the next hour :P so cuteeeee(que bonitaaaa)! Afterwards I was just finger picking(terribly mind you) when two of my sisters moved really close and said, “ohh mannn I want to learn!”…. so I asked them if they would like me to teach them and they excitedly obliged. For the next hour or so Josi, Abbe and I learned the G, C, and D major cords :P. haha they were so cute and asked if they were doing something wrong because their fingers hurt. Jaja. I told them that it’s the sign that they are doing it right:P Later my brother, Renato, I call him (plaga=pest) jajaa came home from classes and then the four of us sat there and learned guitar together! We are going to practice ever-re day…jaja. I teach them guitar, they teach me Spanish!:D it’s a great system;) I am quite excited to see their reactions when its time for me to return to the states and I leave my guitar with them… :] anyways, while I was helping them, I realized that I stink at vocab more that I thought! Sooo Renato stayed up with me for an extra hour teaching me vocab and drawing pictures so I could learn easier!!! Haha hes going to be a professor so I told him that he was good at it and thanked him for having so much patience with me. He replied with” I teach little kids all day how to use computers….so you’re like one of them!”....jajaja I told him one of my nick names was Dory and now he calls me that all the time. That or lenta jenna… which means slow jenna…. Jajajaj!!! It’s a mutual thing. I call him pest or slow renato, he calls me slow jenna… we’re even:p I love that about my whole family. We are always picking on each other! From my 2 brothers to 04 sisters, to my mother and father, we all lovingly joke around. The new family saying is, “broma broma!” which means “joking!” it was a great dayJ