Quickly passing...

Alas! The business of life has come to an end! Yeah Right! The spiral of events over the last couple of weeks is only gaining speed and will continue on it's course until the end of the semester. Which, by the way, is only a mere 3&1/2 weeks away!

Because Louis, our Spanish tutor, was unable to make it to the Kunnari's house tonight Diana gave me a mini tutoring session herself. Grasping the concepts of how things are said in Spanish continues to boggle my mind. Currently the hurdle is attempting to learn when to use the subjunctive tense of verbs. Ugh!

I have been given the opportunity to go down to southern Chile to spend Thanksgiving break with some friends from the States. They have been in Chile for over a month now with the purpose of building a house for the director of the GMSA camp down there. I very much look forward to spending time with old friends as well as helping them with the work project. Lord willing, my bus leaves tomorrow evening and arrives in Villarica (near Lican Ray) Saturday morning.

Please pray for the focus of the students (as well as the teachers :) as this school year draws to an end. I can feel myself looking forward to the break of Christmas with family, but my desire is to remain faithful to the task at hand. Also, please continue to pray for the provision of teachers for the coming semester. Thanks so much for all your prayers! You are a blessing to me!

Rambling thoughts from a weeks worth of info...

It's been over a week now since my last post and I figured it was about time for an update... sorry about that :p

As things up north begin to turn cold, Chile is about to turn full blast into summer. I love the warmth! It's very different to walk into the stores and see Christmas decor for sale after just coming in from 80 degree or higher temperatures. Such is life though...

Just this last Monday, the direct of SCA flew back to the States. He is planning on holding some meetings in different supporting churches in order to help raise support for a project at his church down here. However, he will also be presenting the need for teachers in the coming semester and school year. Praise the Lord that there is one new teacher planning on coming down for next semester. Recently I have been approached by the High School director about the possibility of teaching more classes in the High School next semester. They have asked me if I'd be willing to take on Math as well as Bible for the Junior High girls. I'm not exactly sure if the Bible would include the rest of the High School girls or not. Anyway, if this happens I would no longer be teaching the Pre-K. I would miss teaching the little guys, but the opportunity to be able to be involved with the girls more and to teach Bible absolutely thrills me! I would appreciate your prayers for me about this.

Another new change has come in the last week as well. One of the High School girls needed to drop a class and I was asked if she could come help me with the Pre-K during that 2 period block of time. She has joined us for the last two classes and I've appreciated her help. You could pray for me in this situation. She isn't one of the girls that I teach because she isn't in the Junior High... therefore I haven't really had the opportunity to "connect" with her. Please pray that I could have the opportunity to talk with her more and develop a more personal relationship than we have now. I'm excited to see what the Lord is doing here right now!

One more side note... I know many of you are disappointed, depressed... about how the elections have turned out. I was pondering this as I read my Bible this morning. While doing so, I read through the crucifixion. I was struck by the thought that the disciples were in agony over the death of Christ because they couldn't see the bigger picture of what God had planned. I look at Obama being elected into office and it doesn't make me happy at all, but I still know the One who sits on the throne is in control... and he still sees the big picture!