We’re in El Salvador! We’re in El Salvador! It’s only been two days that we’ve been here but it seems like a week already. So many cool things have already been happening, I can’t wait to see where the path takes us this month.
As I mentioned in a previous blog, this month our team is doing Unsung Heros which means we are litterally going to be wandering around the country wherever we are felt led to go, to find new contacts and places for future world racers to serve at (essentially we’re scouting). We’ve been staying these last two days at a hostel in San Salvador, and we have been so extremely blessed that one of my teammates Dani went to school with Carli, a girl who lives here with her sister Elsi and her papa Salvador. They were awesome enough to come pick us up from the airport, and spend their weekend taking us around town, helping us run errands, and bringing us to little local restaurants to get papusas. We went to church with them yesterday; the sermon was awesome and spoke directly to what we are trying to do here on the race (they had a translator!), and we’ve been getting in contact with new leads and potential contacts through Salvador and his church. I don’t have any for-sure details at the moment but I can tell you my next blog is going to be full of soome crazy awsomeness with different people and places we are being directed to.
San Salvador is beautiful and the weather is gorgeous, but the thing that stands out the most are the people. So far they’ve been very warm and welcoming. Everything is a bit more laid back; people and relationships are valued much more than time here. I’m sure I will have plenty more to speak of on Latina culture, but I have thouroghly enjoyed this first taste.
I’ve also got a lot more time to focus on God here; there are far fewer distractions. Over this past week I’ve come to notice how we are very much a product of the environment we choose to be in. There are a few things I’ve noticed about myself that have completely flipped already just by not being in the states and being surrounded by new friends. That’ll be a topic for a different day after some more contemplation.
Thank you to all of you who are supporting my team and I, God is moving in some cool ways here and it totally blows my mind that I get to be a part of it!
(I will try to get pictures up soon, l’m having some overlooked technical issues)
