Hello everyone, hope this message finds you all well. Things are going pretty well here in Paraguay. We have been lucky enough to have a few days of cool rainy weather, it has been amazing! For all of you it is turning into fall, and those of you not in PHX it is cooling down and the leaves are changing and whatnot...here, not so much. It is getting hotter, except for these few days, and it will just continue to increase. I´ve been told it gets up to like 115 degrees F! I can handle that becuase its like home, but there´s humidity here! But I will live and God is definitely showing me that. I don´t need to be totally comfortable to be happy.
My work has picked up a bit, I am now reading with students in the first grade class that struggle with reading, I´ve been able to use some of my teaching background so that has been fun. I am also helping in a classroom with 4 year olds. After that I read with two of the 2nd graders. Also, on Fridays I teach English to the 2nd grade students. I love the kids and I love their excitment and enthusiasm. I have been able to communicate a tiny bit better with the teachers, and getting to know them a little better, which has been great. They are really wonderful people. I also have been able to learn some stuff about the children. Most of them come from troubled homes and backgrounds, where their parents are not around and don´t provide a positive influence for their kids. This is what we try to accomplish at the school. They are all great in their own ways and I can´t wait until I understand everything they are saying to me. LOL! They talk very fast and high so I especially struggle to understand the kids. They call me Tia Katie (Cotty is how it sounds), or Profe Katie...its adorable! That means aunt Katie or teacher Katie for those of you who might not know. I am also going to start teaching English at the church right next door to the school two afternoons a week...a little nerve racking since I still can´t speak Spanish but we´ll see how it goes!
I can´t express in just a few short words how much God is already working within me. A friend of mine gave me a devotional before I left and every day I read it I am so amazed and in awe of God and how directly the Bible verses and messages apply to my life right now. I am taking it one day at a time and listening to what God has to say to me. I may not know the exact reason I´m here and might feel like going home at times but God has a plan and I want to be able to fulfill that for him.
Hope you all have a great weekend, I will try to write again soon.
P.S. Sorry if there are spelling errors, I am using a computer thats set to Spanish only and so when I click spell check it says all my words are wrong. :) And for those of you who know me well, I can´t spell!
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