Hola family and friends,
Hope everyone is well...Im doing great besides the fact Im sweating out places I didnt know I could sweat and unable to find the punctuation keys on this spanish keyboard haha so please dont mind the lack of punctuation. As I guess you can figure out...Ive arrived safe and sound in Panama! and let me tell you...its hot! and extremely beautiful.
Its been an amazing few days of growing and training in the gospel and how to use our spanish resources. Weve had a few spanish lessons from the christian students at the university and my vocab is growing daily. Ive met quite a few panamanians already and have to say they are probably some of the nicest people Ive ever met...though their driving is quite scary! I dont think God is going to have too much trouble giving me His heart for these people...they are amazing...dont worry Mom and Dad I promise Ill come home in June..you havent lost me to them... yet haha. We toured the campus today and just prayed for our different faculties..my group will be reaching out to the law faculty and Im really excited for Monday morning when we finally get to go to the campus and get started. We are going to find some english speakers to translate for us when we go out sharing our faith and we will also be doing some events focused on reaching out to the law students here. Please be praying for us daily, the language barrier is a big one for most of us and Satan is definately putting fears and doubts in our minds. Please pray that we would not under estimate the power of the Holy Spirit in us but trust that we can do ALL things through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Tomorrow we will be having a day off (like most Saturdays will be) and well be heading to the Panama cannal, which is very exciting, Ill take lots of pictures dont worry! and Sunday we get to experience our first panamanian church service which apparently runs for between 2 and 3 hours! hopefully its air conditioned haha. Anyways, I guess thats all for now, looking forward to next week when Ill be able to share all the amazing things God did our first week on campus! God Bless you all and thanks again for making this experience possible, I have no doubt this is where God wants me to be!
xoxoxo
Em