Well, it appears I'm a little behind on things. However, I finally got the newsletter out. What a mess. I never planned to be a publisher of anything nor a big user of a computer. God has a way of putting you in places and doing things you never cared to do. So everyone hopefully will have some patience with all this when things don't look like a professional job. Because it truly isn't. People, especially Doug, says to just go in and play with it. Ha! That's exactly how I got on Facebook, that I don't have time for, don't really know how to use, and then I lose things and don't know how to find them again. And it appears that I touched a button somewhere along the line and changed the font in some places in the newsletter. Oh, well, hopefully next time will be better. Need lots of prayer here. But in the fast world we live in, everything has to be instant, and you're required to be everything, whether you want to be or not. I thought I was doing pretty good just doing on line banking and doing it right.
So what's happening? Will begin Spanish lessons three days a week instead of two, so that's six hours a week instead of four. The problem here is not having anyone to converse with, since I live by myself. I teach English just about all day long. I speak with the teachers and shop owners in Spanish, but that's not for a long period of time. And you know, I can trill that "r" when I'm using my prayer language, but not in normal speech. I finally decided that it's because I'm not controlling my tongue when using my prayer language. God is. So my prayer is for him to loosen my tongue when speaking Spanish.
What else is happening? Yesterday we didn't have classes except for the 7th graders. Parents came yesterday to get their childrens report cards and to talk to teachers. The other 7th grade teacher wasn't there, so the only class the 7th graders had was with me. And since it was Friday,
it was devotional time. Eva wasn't there to translate due to meeting parents in the kindergarten. Since they are learning the chorus "Come, now is the time to worship" in English, we worked on singing and looking up the words they didn't know which were not many. Thank you Jesus. They sing it in Spanish in church. Then we talked about what they wanted to be career wise. Which means, they have to go a different direction than what is considered normal here. A girl gets pregnant at 13-16 (and above) years old. The guy goes else where, and starts over again with another girl and is not held accountable for the children he is helping to create. They don't look towards the future. It's here and now. So with God's help, maybe this group can be different. They looked a little shocked when I said it was pecado, sin, in God's eyes. It's very difficult to break away from your culture into God's culture, and maybe impossible without God's help. For the two are not the same. So I pray God will open their eyes, ears, hearts, and minds to his truth. And that they will work towards the careers they said they would like to have. The area I work in is very poor. So God and his grace is a definite need in their lives. And I'm so glad that he hears and sees the poor. And He will make a way for them if they make him their savior. A choice we all have to make.
Received the sad news that one of my former students had passed away. Really broke my heart. She was such a blessing to have in class. She had muscular dystrophy, if I remember correctly, and was probably 18 or 19 years old. I had her during her freshman and sophomore years. We had a lot of fun trying to figure out what was going on in Lost, the television series. And we never could. She decided that's why they named it Lost, because we were. She had a great sense of humor. She will be missed by all who knew her. I pray God will comfort her family.
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