First week in Guatemala

So my first week in Guatemala has been very fun. I have had my missing home moments and missing all of my friends and church but i know that I am here for a reason and I just can not wait to see how God is going to use me these next six months!

Unfortunately i left my journal back at the place i am staying so this blog is going to be from memory!

We did not get to our home until 11:30 at night so we had a long day of traveling!
when i woke up the next morning i was greeted by some fireworks and roosters crowing at 6:30 in the morning. The first day we did not do much we walked to the store and bought some food and that was about it.

on sunday we went to church. we knew about 5 of the songs they sang like 10 and the sermon was translated in english for us so i was very grateful for that.

mon - fri is going to be all mixed together bc i can not remember what happened on what day!!

• i cooked breakfast one of the days and woke up to find 2 cockroaches on the counter! that was gross
• another day there was a dead one on the bathroom floor
• the girls sink is leaking and the hot water just started to work and the toilit was broken. and did i forget to mention we have one bathroom for 9 girls haha that will be interesting.
• we packaged bags for all the little school aged children and we will deliver them in a few weeks.
• i am in the furniture factory for the first 2 months. we have not done much in there yet we took apart a bed and took it next door to put it in another room and we found termite holes so we had to stain/finish some of the wood and prob on mon we will put it back together. i got to smooth wood with this machine and then i got to use a circular saw for the first time. we will make little projects we can take home and then some bigger projects we can not like a table.
• we had to read nehemiah for 5 days - once each day and right a paragraph for each day on what we learned for working together as a team. some of the things that stuck out to me were - there is no i in team, set your differences aside, and a few others but i can not rem right now!!
  
• we started reading a book called God Chasers i forget the author but its about chasing God - go figure haha! i am enjoying the book so far and then at the end of each chapter we have to write a summary of how we are chasing God
• we have to memorize five versus from romans - they are the road to salvation verses - in spanish and english so when we go to street evangelisim we know them
• and we have to have our testimonies put into 2 paragraphs and we will make them into a track for us to hand out when we are in the streets or the colleges and where ever else we go
• we went to the zoo this week - they have alot of different animals but i can not rem their names.
  

there is alot more things that have been happening like in my life and how God is already speakin to me and its only been a week. so i am looking forward to see where God is going to take me these next 6 months



If you would still like to support me while i am here you can send the money to my sister or give it to her and she will take care of it my address is 1119 Maine Ave Aliquippa Pa 15001 - either address it to luann cubbage or salena cubbage both will get to her!!

I am going to try to blog each week to keep everyone updated!! and i promise next time i will remember my journal!!


Love Luann