Friendships

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man (or woman) with a heart must be in want of a friend. How awesome is it that God created us for relationship? Relationship with Him, relationship with each other. We've been enjoying building relationships with people in our new community. Our fellow classmates are a group of unique, creative, God-loving people from the U.S and Canada. We love going through this sometimes painful, often rewarding process with them. Sometimes it feels so random that we're all in this place together but we know it's not random. God orchestrates our lives and our circumstances. No detail is out of His grasp. What a crazy, amazing thought.

Each day we learn more and more Spanish. This opens the door of communication and we can actually have conversations with Mexicans now. The conversations are still broken and rudimentary, but we're able to go beyond phrases like, "How old are you?" "How many siblings do you have?" "What's your name?" Just this week we have been learning how to speak in past tenses. I didn't say "past tense" because, as it turns out, there are 14 tenses in Spanish. That's a hard concept to wrap my brain around.

We attend the church across the street from our house. Many of the songs are familiar to us. The sermon is still over our heads but we are able to pick out more and more words each week. We've been holding a low-key Bible study at our house on Friday evenings. It's been encouraging and refreshing for us to fellowship in our own language. Which is a wonderful reminder about why we are here. To be able to share the Lord and our lives with people in their own language is such a powerful thing. It's powerful for us to read the Word in English just as it is powerful for Spanish-speakers to read it in Spanish. Please pray that the Lord will give us the aptitude to learn this language and learn it well.