Of El Campo (The Desert) and The New (Unfinished) House

Alrighty, well, it´s certainly been a while.

Okay, for starters, I´m back home (in Mendoza), and actually have been for a few weeks, but life has just been that crazy. I got back here on Friday, June 29th. I was able to spend a full day here before going to Buenos Aires to meet the team from my church at the airport. I cannot tell you how exciting it was to see them arrive. That evening, we all took the bus back to Mendoza, where we were met with a massive asado and welcome program! It was so neat to see my YWAM family get so excited about my church family.

The next morning, we left for a week and some in the desert, where we visited schools, ran a NIKO camp, built a house, and cleared away bushes to make a road. It was an amazing time, where God just did so much. It was such a huge blessing for me to be able to see Him working in the hearts of these young people. We were blessed so much not only by the actual service that they did, but even more by the joyful attitudes that they had towards everything. As well, it was a lot of fun to get to know them, and have them grow to love the people that I love so much here. When their bus pulled away towards Buenos Aires last night, I have to admit that I was a mess! It didn´t halp that a number of the girls on the team were crying as well, but it was especially hard to have to say goodbye to Michael. I wish that he could have stayed longer, that´s for sure.

Well, I am living in my house at the base... which is quite interesting. All 7 of us are crammed into 2 of the bedrooms right now, as they are the only rooms that have glass in the windows. Let me tell you, it makes for cold nights! We just had some electricity put in a few weeks ago, although it´s not finished yet. We currently have no bathrooms, no plumbing of any sort, no kitchen, no flooring , and, as previously mentioned, no glass in most of the windows. It´s a frustrating thing to have to just wait until more money comes in. Please pray that God will be doing miracles with our house so that we´ll be able to continue on with it. I´d sure like to have a bathroom, at least! That being said, it´s still exciting to be in my own house, as incomplete as it is!