Its November!

Hello all!
I'll try to keep this update shorter... so that you actually read all the way through, LOL. Its been a great two months here and I can't believe it went by so fast!

One of the most memorable moments so far was at a church service (Culto de Damas) of the women in the community. We went to the house of Mari Rosa who is battling breast cancer to pray for her and her family. Imagine if you can a house at the bottom of a hill where the way is narrow, littered with stones and garbage and beside a polluted stream. At the bottom of this hill you find 30 women, some sitting, most standing outside the porch of a little concrete house. Around the women are flies, mosquitos, and chickens all attracted by the polluted stream running less than a foot away from where the women stand. In the middle of the service, a little boy playing nearby runs casually to the stream to urinate. This is a place where we would never visit. A place we would not want to spend 5 minutes in, and certainly never 2 hours. Here we had a church service, here I felt the presence of the Lord. The women prayed, sang worship songs from memory and testified what the Lord had done in their lives. There was such a sense of community, of love and of belonging. Though Mari Rosa is the only one who is battling cancer, every women there felt a sense of loss and sympathized with her struggle. I find it hard to think of a better example of God's love poured out for us than what I saw in this service.