We started our first day of classes on monday. We are talking about intimacy with god. So far to be honest I don't really like it. Our speaker Elise has been talking about how the lord will tell women who and when to marry. I don't like the fact that she is talking about this because one I am a guy (shocker I know) and she is only really addressing the women. Secondly, most of the girls are either 19 or younger. I don't really like the fact that someone is talking to a bunch of girls who in my opinion still need a lot of growing up to do about how God is going to tell them when and who to get married to. To me it almost seems creepy, plus I talked to all the girls about it and they said that they are all no were close to something like that. This isn't all she is talking about, in fact it is probably a about 10 % but it is enough to put me off to most of her talks.
Later we played soccer again and I got hurt, twice. I got another ball to my favorite area again, and by Rowey as well. I need to make sure that he is on my team from now on so that he stops hitting me there. Second was I got a ball to the face, but I was wearing my sun glasses so I got a nice cut above my eye. It bleed for a while but other then that I was fine. I did a lot better today. In about 5 min I scored three goals. I am really excited though because they told us today that they are going to the Soccer DTS. DTS is the program that I am doing and originally I was going to do the soccer DTS but they didn't have enough people sign up so it was canceled. Well for some reason, I have yet to hear the official reason why, but they are going to do the soccer DTS! There is going to be about 11 of us total doing it and it starts next week.
We got a new student this week, his name is Jonathan. He is originally from Holland but has been living in Guatemala for the past six years. He got here late because first he missed his bus, and he was also having problems with his visa.
On Tuesday we had more class, it was a little better today. We talked about Petter and how he denounced Christ but how after Christ was resurrected that he came back to Peter and excepted him back. I liked this a lot because I myself denounced Christ, and I love the fact that he will always bring me back into his arms because his love for us is so strong.
I've been asked what my average day looks like. It is kind of hard to explain but I will try my best. During the week breakfast is at 6:30 in the morning. Then we have personal devotional time from 7-8. From 8-9 we have some sort of worship. 9-12:30 we have our first class period then we have lunch until 2. Then depending on the what is going on that week 2-4 can either be class, free time or mission work. 4-6 is work duties. Everyone has a job that they have to do. I have dinner clean up though so I have free time during this period. I thought that I had finished having to do a ton of hand washing once my parents finished remodeling the kitchen. Now I get to do anywhere from 20-80 peoples dinner dishes all by hand. After dinner is either class time, free time or mission work. then it is bed time. I am quite busy here, even during our free time I am either, journaling, writing my blog, reading or playing soccer.
Wed is when I finally got internet. I was able to talk to my parents for the first time since being here. They let me know though that they got a call about my credit cards. Visa fraud department called and said they thought that maybe my credit card got stolen, but they wouldn't tell them anything more because it is my card not theirs. Well since I didn't want to pay two dollars a minute talking to visa I went to get some credits from Skype. When I entered in my credit card information I got a screen that said that my card was temporary blocked. Great… Luckily my parents were able to give me some credits for Skype. I called Visa, quite mad because I called them before I left to let them know that I would be out of the country for six months. When I finally got to talk to an actual person, fifteen minutes later, they informed me that they didn't block it because I had been using my credit card in Costa Rica. It was because I bought some music on iTunes… because that is totally suspicious.
Thursday we had our feet washed by our DTS leaders. For those of you that don't know, this is a pretty big gesture within the Christian faith. Jesus did this to his disciples right before he was betrayed. A lot of the students were very emotional by then end of it. I just couldn't stop thinking about how soft Josè's hands were. I mean they were really really soft. We had some more of class time and then at night we watched Passion of the Christ. By the end everyone one in the room was crying and said that they felt the Holy Spirit, except for me. To be completely honest I haven't felt much of anything when it comes to God since I have been here. This is very frustrating because one of the reasons I wanted to come here was to reconnect with God. It makes it very difficult to do these things when I feel absolutely nothing. So for those of you who are reading this, I could really use your prayers right now. It would be greatly appreciated.
Love you all,
Scott
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