La Palma Girl

This picture is of Norma and I. Norma is married to Jose, the preacher in La Palma. She is very quickly becoming one of my best friends here. Now, I just need her to teach me Spanish and for me to teach her English so we can talk more.

Yesterday, I had my first two classes open to the puplic. It's a little intimidating to teach a class with various age groups and skill levels. I was warned to not teach anything too advance as it may discourage some of the students. Both of the classes I had Monday were full of intermediate to advanced students. This was a welcome surprise, so we only did a small review. Hopefully I will be able to teach something more appropriate for where they are at on Wednesday (most of the classes meet twice a week). So far today, I have only had one class. This class was actually at a beginners level so we worked a lot on pronunciation. Some of the students knew the words, but didnt know how to say them. For example, they could see the word in English and tell me what it was in Spanish, but didn't know how to say or spell it in English.

Also, I mentioned the other day that we went up the mountain to visit with a sister in Christ. Her husband almost never comes to church and when he does, the family doesnt sit together. After our visit, he came to church service the next day and the whole family sat together. The whole church is meeting at their house on Wednesday for songs and devotional. Its a very long track up the mountain, but its our way of acknowledging the sacrifice they make every week.

Also after church on Sunday, there was a man who is not a memeber of the church and he was very upset. I didn't quite understand what was going on, but I was later informed that he was drunk and mad about something and warned the people that were there that he had a gun. Not really upset that I didn't understand that while it was happening. That would have frightened me, but once again, God provides. Please continue praying for the work here.