Matthew 5:13

February 4- We bought salt the other week, and it only comes in these little plastic pouches that are stapled at the top. But it’s already lost its saltiness! How am I suppose to restore it? It’s not longer good for anything expect to be thrown out and trampled under…chickens…feet. Ha ha lame.


Today I went far out of my comfort zone. I decided that I wanted to speak to the kids in the youth group in Spanish so Eddy helped me write out directions to a game so that I could memorize it for next Friday. It was a long process because half the time I can’t understand Eddy when he’s speaking English, and when any of them speak Spanish, they always go so fast and blend the words together. I also had to think through what I was trying to say a lot more carefully. In the game, I need the kids to sit in a circle, so we translated, “Sit in a circle.” As Eddy read through what I wrote, he said that that won’t make sense to them, that they would look around for a circle to sit in. So, we changed it to form a circle.

After we finally finished writing it out, Eddy wanted me to repeat it back to him. By this time, a few boys from the youth group who were at the church working stopped to watch the gringa in action. I’m self-conscience already, but now it’s in a different language, and the boys and Eddy pulled up chairs and got real close to me with big smiles on their faces. I can’t put into words how much I didn’t want to do it, but if I was serious about wanting to learn Spanish, I need to practice and I’ll have to get use to be correcting all of the time. By the third time I had read the page through they were FINALLY satisfied. They said something about it, but they spoke too fast and I didn’t catch it…But they were laughing again ha ha. And they haven’t even heard me try to sing in Spanish yet! :) As I practice in our little apartment I’m sure all the neighbors are wondering why the howler monkeys are out so late in the day ha ha!