March 19, 2004
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Still enjoying the beauty of Latin America and the adventures and daily life of being a Guatemalan for two months!! I think I’m enjoying life here the longer we’re here, and honestly, I can hardly believe that we’ve been here for four weeks, one month, already. The time is going fast, and there is so much more that we want to see and learn and do… I think that um, we will not be fluent in Spanish at the end of two months like we originally thought!!! Two months sounds like a long time to study a language, and it’s Latin-based too, but we’re not dreaming in Spanish yet! We definitely will be improved, but not natural Latinos… I’m not stressing over it though – if we came down here because this was how God led and we followed, it’s not worth getting unnerved and stressed about. We’ll enjoy it, study it, speak it, but not get upset about it!!
I was thinking this week though, how privileged I am to be here, to be immersed in another culture like this, to receive a bigger awareness of the world through daily interaction with the Latin American people… I feel so honored! Yet I was also thinking, that no matter how much we travel, where all we go, what all we see, how much language we acquire: if our time down here is not a continuation of the journey of our heart, if we don’t take this 2-month period and take time to get into God’s heart, then this trip is not worthwhile. The world would argue, because our scope of the world we live in is broader, we’re receiving a broader picture than just our lives in our own scope of the world; but in the eyes of eternity, if we do not press in to the heart of the Father, then our time here is wasted, in the eyes of God. I was really challenged by that, and would appreciate if ya’ll would pray for us with that… that we all would fall more in love with our Jesus and that this would not just be a good time exploring, learning, experiencing, but that it would be of eternal value because of the journey our heart is taking with God…
My ramblings always get longer than I intend… thanks for checking in on us and praying!!
clarita <><
