More Pictures from Peru

I am finally getting around to posting some pictures from our trip to Peru.

Market day

Live guinea pig

 Everybody working hard     
 The train to Macchu Picchu

Josh and I at Macchu Picchu

March 29

The past week has been intense, but great.  I feel as though I hit the ground running after landing back in Costa Rica.  Josh and I spent the last two weeks of February in Peru working with a seminary there, and then the first two weeks of March in Georgia.  We attended the Global Missions Conference at our home church in Georgia, Johnson Ferry Baptist Church.  The conference was a great opportunity to meet other missionaries and the Lord really opened our eyes to further ways we can spread the Gospel here in Costa Rica.  We have had several visitors in the week since being back including the President of EMI as well as Kyle Collins and his wife Lolly, one of the missions pastors from JFBC.  The time with them was a great time of connecting, learning about how the Lord is working through them, and an awesome time of encouragement also.  They were definitely a blessing for the 2 days they were with us.  From our time with visitors, we jumped right into several meetings and things planned over the weekend with EMI and our church.  Sunday was El Dia para Conocernos Mejor which means "The Day to Get to Know Ourselves Better".  It's a sort of dinner on the grounds/carnival.  It was amazing to see how our relationship with our church has changed in the past year.  I remember this same day last year was one of stress and worry.  Feeling less than confident about my Spanish, trying to get to know people by sitting down at a table and starting a conversation was something that felt awkward and brought some level of fear.  This year, however, was a different experience.  It was great to feel like you're there with family.  I blogged last year about having a granizado at this event, and this year Josh and I actually MADE the granizados.  Josh was the ice crusher and I was the assembler along with a man from our church named Macho.  There were lots of games to play.  Josh and I helped with a fooseball tournament as well as participated.  Needless to say, Josh didn't have the best partner, and we were out the first round.  It was a great, but exhausting day.  It's been so good to get back to "normal" life.  The time away was so wonderful and the time with our family was so great, but I have felt a renewed sense of thanksgiving for the relationships and ministry that we have here in Costa Rica.  On a side now, after 3 days of intense heat, it started raining and has rained every afternoon for the last 3 days.  I guess rainy season is starting up, and I couldn't be more ready!