El Cento de Federal

one of these is a pic of the girl's house, one is of team vellez, and the other is of this crazy ralley for the president of argentina


this first week is considered orientation...becoming familiar with our team, the people, language, culture, city. So yesterday they had a scavenger hunt for us, it was extremely creative. we were split into 2 teams and have to navigate our way around the city and solve different questions about the argentine culture in order to know where to go for our next clue. this entailed us asking random argentines on the street for help, directions, ect. we had to go to locotorious (internet cafes) for clues as well. forcing us to use the spanish that we know. we had to figure out the transportation system here which consists of trains, buses and the subway. they want us to feel comfortable getting around here, as well as talking with the argentine people. we hit all the famous sites in Buenos Aires: the presidents house (we actually saw the president himself on the roof of his house...he waved to the crowd and everyone went crazy. there were CRAZY ralleys all over the city yesterday. there were points where we could barely move. loud music. drums. dancing. they know how to do it here in AR)
The people here are amazing! They're very relational, so the ministry consists primarily of building relationship with them. Another focus of this first week is understanding their perception of a relationship with God. The missionaries have told us that ministry here is a long process because they value relationships so much...it's taking the time to share you life with people. So one thing they stressed is that it's God that changes hearts and lives and not us. We've been spending a lot of time in prayer...I've seen God work in powerful ways through prayer and am excited to see what He's going to do here in Argentina. It may be something that we might not even witness while we're here, but that's not up to us.
Tomorrow is the "day of faith"...it's going to be crazy. it's supposedly really going to test our faith...we don't have details yet, but i'll post a blog with some pics soon.



un beso por todos!
Sheryle