Busy days

Hey everyone!

I don’t really have a lot to report. My days have been really full and tiring. On Tuesday and Thursdays I have class from 8:00 until 4:30. Mondays and Fridays I just have class in the afternoons from 1:00 – 4:30. On Wednesdays (like today) we had worship service for all the students from 10:00-11:00 and then we have lunch and head over to classes in the afternoon. On top of the classes and long days, the homework is steadily increasing. This takes time at night where I want to just rest and be with my family. I have been mostly doing my homework with my family while they watch TV. Everyone sits on the bed to watch TV, so I just sit on the bed too and read my assignments. So far this has been working well, and I know that physical presence means a lot to them.

Here’s the kicker: travel time. This adds an insane amount of time. It takes me 45 minutes to walk to class in the mornings (and a lot of this is uphill…and I mean, uphill!) Classes in the morning and in the afternoon are in different places, and it takes us 45 minutes to walk that as well. Then when we are done with classes at 4:30 in the afternoon, we have to walk home…which takes 1 ½ hours. If you do the math, that means we walk 3 hours a day. The sad thing is, walking home at night (which takes 1 ½ hours) takes less time than riding the bus! Walking also gives us a chance to move around, and we get to enjoy the beautiful weather here. So by the end of the day, I’m exhausted. My feet hurt, my legs hurt, and my butt hurts. :) But it’s all part of the experience, right?!

Other than that, I’m doing well. This morning was really wonderful to have a time of worship together. I really valued this time, and it was very refreshing. Please pray that I continue to seek God in the hectic days, and please pray that I can keep up with the long days (leaving my house at 7:15 and getting home just after 6:00 at night). Please pray that God would give me the energy and the strength to make it through these really long days. This schedule is taxing already, and it has only been 3 days. Just please pray that I will seek God, even though it is so busy. I cannot lose sight of God. I can gain the whole world and gain wisdom and knowledge about Latin America and the world, but if I lose God, I have gained nothing. God is the most important thing in my life. He has to be the one that always gets my first fruits and my whole heart. Nothing else compares to the joy of knowing Christ. Please pray that I may feel this truth.