Peru is beautiful. Today was our first full day here and God
has already shown us so many cool things. Having the four of us, plus
Courtney’s friend Sarah, has been so much fun! Sarah has been such an uplifting
member of our team. She carries spiritual gifts that compliment ours well and
has been the voice of reason today. I guess it comes with her being the
oldest—she turns 21 in August. Yeah, that’s the oldest of us.
Today, we went to the market and bought food for our time
here at YWAM. When we went to the meat part of the market, we had the option of
buying chicken patties, chicken legs, wings, or the whole chicken. We went with the whole chicken. We have videos of Courtney cutting it up, we'll have to post later :)
And here is our Mama Cecilia showing us, with an actual
knife, how to cut the chicken. She’s the wife of Big Cesar and the mom of
little Cesar, who’s actually bigger. Little Cesar is the director of the YWAM
base in Lima, who connected us to the base here.
And our first successful meal J
The Australian
team lands tonight. Today was our time to settle in. With our free time this
afternoon, we decided to walk to the Starbucks to get some free wifi. When
Starbucks became farther than we expected, we saw a McDonald’s and decided to
milk them for their wifi instead. We met a German girl, her Peruvian boyfriend,
and his American best friend from Wisconsin. Well, I don’t know if we met them
so much as found out they understood everything we were saying the hard way.
Anyways, I went
up to use the restroom after we ordered our food and came back to find a little
Peruvian girl had taken my seat. Maria had come up to our table, Sarah was the
only one sitting there, and sold her some candy. When Maria asked us what we
were doing in Peru, Logan and Courtney shared with her they have siblings from
Peru. After many moments of broken Spanish and confusion, we explained they
were adopted. Maria was ecstatic to find out we were American and she enjoyed listening
to us trying to speak Spanish as she ate my fries one by one. We could tell
immediately Maria didn’t come to us just to sell us candy, she wanted to know
us. It was an hour before sunset, so we decided to go home, we said our
goodbyes to Maria and Sarah told her, “Jesus te amo.” (Jesus loves you). Maria
hugged us all and gave us the traditional kiss on the cheek as we left. She was
easily the best part of our day.
