One thing I never would have guessed that I would do would be to teach. Let alone enjoy it. But as I am learning about this adventure I am on, I can´t hold any expectations and I need to be willing to say yes to everything! So when our team was told we were going to teach English to kids from first grade to high schoolers, I knew that this was the time to be willing and to grow.       Our group split into pairs and went to different grades, so Mike and I headed off to teach third graders. We had a few minutes to pull together a short lesson...

I have had a hard time thinking of a blog topic this week. I´ve finally settled on one. I have been so excited this week because we have been given the opportunity to teach english at a local school grades 1st to highschool. I have had so much fun and I love everything about teaching and it completely confirms my desire to have that as my career. This week we split up into pairs and in the morning I taught 4th graders and in the afternoon we went back to the school and taught 8th graders. I noticed something quite interesting on that first day of teaching. While the 4th graders were...

          Life is crazy and life is busy. It is not uncommon for one of the members of the team to say "Oh Boy, That WAS THIS MORNING!!! IT FEELS LIKE THAT WAS DAYS AGO AHHH!!!!" ; or "OR What did we do this last week!??! AHH I CANT REMEMBER!! Life is like that for us and we all love it!           One of the most humble and beautiful things happened to our group this week. We have been going to a school that is sponsored by Compassion Ministries and each student has a pen pal pouring...

Preparing for this trip we have been told what to pack, what we should wear, how to act in certain cultural situations, how to be happy no matter what we are eating (which is sometimes questionable, like an iguana), but there wasn´t any training on how to deal with emptiness and the feeling of helplessness. Although there is much joy and laughter that happens on this adventure we are on, there are times when we feel defeated. This morning our groups walked about 25 minutes from our house to an area that was radically different from even our life here in San Vicente. About four years...

"Laura, you are awesome!" "Laura, I love that shirt!" "Laura, you can pull off a side braid better than Willie Nelson!" "Laura, you are great at communicating with the people despite your language barrier." This is what I heard on Wednesday. 2 Chocobananas  1 ice cream cup 1 peanut butter/sugar/syrup sandwich Offers for a teammate to wash my filthy feet. This is what was given to me on Wednesday. Literally picked up and carried away from my cleaning job at the church. A teammate served my food to me. My bed was organized and things were put...

           First off, I apologize for all of my spelling mistakes in last weeks blog–turns out the copy & paste button doesn't work through our blog website so I had type it before our wifi shut off  🙂            At first I wasn't sure what to blog on. This week has been full of incredible experiences from door to door evangelism to classroom prayers with 2nd graders. Our lives are constantly being shaped and made by God which gives me many stories to write to you guys about. I could write to you the miracle...