Angelina's Life in Motion

Hello everyone! Thanks for visiting me again! I enjoy hearing from you as well. Hmm... where should I begin today? Well, on Friday, we invited the landlady and her son over for dinner. The dinner is supposed to be at 6:30 and everything is ready. I cooked lemon-pepper chicken and rice. (I think I may actually have some hidden cooking potential. Thanks to my mother!!) So, it turned out really well. Anyways, I saw the lady and her son leave about 5:30 and so at 6:30 they hadn't returned yet. Well, about 6:45 we (Me, Erin, Judy and Janelle- all teachers who live in that building) hear her come back- with several other people. So, we were all a little nervous- because as it turns out, it is common for Mexicans to invite other people with them to an invitation. Fortunately at about a few minutes after 7, the lady came down and her relatives went home. So, we enjoyed a nice meal and were entertained by our guest. She speaks good English and she LOVES to chat!! So, the evening went well. We hope to invite them over again. Pray for God to open up doors in that situation. So, that was Friday. Saturday was a paint day at the school. Several teachers and students got together to paint a few rooms in the school. It went well and afterwards for lunch (at 3:30) we got pizza from Domino's. It was good! Oh yeah, I can't remember if I told you about the pop here. Well, I have enjoyed a new kind of pop. It's Manzana lift, or Manzanita Sol, In english- Apple pop. Yes, I know it sounds strange to have apple pop, but it's good. They should get it in the US! Sunday, I went to the Hudson's house after church for an EBM luncheon. There are 2 families and me from EBM, we all go to the same church, so we had lunch together afterwards. It was a very relaxing time. You teachers will appreciate this next event, my VERY FIRST OPEN HOUSE!!! Only, it's not what we think of as Open House. This Open HOuse is for the parents to come and get information. Students are not invited. So, I actually didn't find out until Saturday that I was going to have to talk in front of my parents for Open HOuse. So, I was a litttle nervous. I've never known an Open House without children involved, so it was different. However, it went very well. I was so nervous standing in front of all those parents. I was worried that they'd ask some hard question I didn't have an answer to. But, they didn't. The community here is so strong and the parents so helpful and encouraging. They are so grateful to even have teachers here so that they can focus on their church planting ministries and not have to be a full-time schoolteacher as well. So, I feel so blessed to be in PCS and feel the committment that the parents, teachers and students have to the Lord! It's wonderful. Well, that's all for today. Take some time to look up 1 Corinthians 15:58, as it has encouraged and challenged me this week! Keep strong in the Lord!
Angelina