Week 9 - Day 62

Hello once again!
First of all, thank you all who read this every week! I know some people *cough, cough* can type about anything and everything and make blog posts a little more than you might want to read. Thank you for continuing to read though and praying for the team and also for the special people here in Matucana.
We have been busy this week. We’re busy with visiting with people (maybe for the last time) and also with finding new people and meeting with them.
Andy has been vigorously working translating an 11 page document for the Matucana municipal office. The document is tourism info for the area and since Matucana wants to also appeal to the gringos, they would need an English version of the information. Andy said he would do it for them as a gift to the city. It’s looking really good and I’m looking forward to seeing the finished document.
Our last English class was on Wednesday night and it was suggested by Jose’ Acosto that the theme of this class should be prayer. WOW. It’s still shocking to me that the government allows us to not only pray, tell a Bible story, but to teach them from the Bible how to pray. That was for the entire length of class! After class was kinda emotional for all of us, they were thanking all of us (even though I just sit through the entire class) for being there and willing to teach them. It was so great. They want us back on this coming Wednesday night to eat chicken and also to “conversate” with them. That will be a nice ending to our last day here I think.
We are continuing to meet with our regular people and things are going well with them.
Independence Day here in Peru is on Tuesday the 28th. This past week everyone has been painting and cleaning the outsides of their homes and businesses. Next week there will be many celebrations with concerts and other activities. We are allowed and are going to participate because they aren’t catholic related festivals! The Creative Ministry Team is coming on Monday and they’ll be able to do a lot of things in the squares and we are hoping to have a game day at the school on Tuesday. Pray that that works out because we haven’t been able to meet with the right people to get that set up.
That’s I have for now. I hope you all are doing well and had a good/ are having a good week! Please continue to pray that are last days here are productive and we get as much done as possible. We’re leaving on Thursday to go to Chosica for debriefing and Sunday night at 11:30pm we’ll be on our way home! I will be posting 1 more blog, then watch for a post from each of us the week of our return. It’ll be a post about our summer from our own perspectives.
See ya’ll in a little bit!
~Chelsea><>