Pros and Cons

The pros to ministry are that I am in another country with amazing people, learning and doing wonderful and challenging things.
The cons of ministry is that I miss out on things with my family and friends that I hate missing.
Like I missed my best friend Andrew's wedding.
And I missed my best friend Nate moving back to Ohio. So I never got to say goodbye.
I missed birthdays and stuff of that nature. Bittersweet.
Saturday we woke up and cooked pancakes for the girls who had slept over in our house. Then we went into town for a couple hours and did souvenir shopping and buying groceries and looking into birthday gifts. We had some real good lemonade and just enjoyed each others company. Then that evening we had the youth service at church. We gave the kids their blankets and pillows back too. And then we watched Gilmore Girls.
Sunday we had church in the morning and then we had the baptisms. We rode in a big van with 19 people to the irrigation canal to do them. It was a real Peruvian experience. The other van had like 27 people in it, crazy! ha ha ha! It was really cool to watch the baptisms in the canal. Some of the girls got baptized. Then we came back and hungout with the kids. Aimeeta and I had this thing going on with Yhonson, keep the ball away from him because otherwise he would kick it really far away to where we'd have to go and get it. (yes that reminded me of you Emily) And then he found a grasshopper and thought it would be funny to put it on us so he was chasing us around trying to put it on us and at one point he swished it on my hand, disgusting.
And then we had the evening service and that was good. We came back and watched Princess Protection and then Gilmore Girls before heading to bed.
Today I have been working on my books for class. This book I am reading is SO good. I am actually reading every page and not wanting to put the book down. I wish I would have read it right before I came on the trip. It has so much challenge in it to live more like a servant.
I really have done nothing other than that pretty much for today.
I want to talk about more but it will have to wait because I really need to get my book stuff taken care of this week so I have time with the kids the last two weeks of my trip!
Sending my love your way! Keep me in your prayers please. I am starting to get a cough again.
Thanks for everything!