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Published: January 18th 2007
Deigo playing futbol
This is my argentine friend playing futbol at the conference in argentinaAlright how are you all doing once again. so i haven´t updated this thing in like a long long long time. so right now i am in bogota, colombia. i will be here and around here for the next 2 months. i will be going back to pichilemu chile on the 6 or march. so i got a ways to go before i go to my travels around south america. so right now i just got to stay focused on this part on the trip. so her in bogota there is alot of poverty just like any other country and big city in south america. i haven´t seen to much of the city and i don´t think i will be able to. we are staying very busy. we are doing alot of evangleism with dramas and talking to the people. the people here are very open which is awesome. they need to fill that deep longin in their hearts, they jsut need to figure it out that it is a relationship with GOD that they need. the people here are also very cool. they are very hospitable and very respectful. its good to see that that still exists. we are also playing some sports with the people here. its nice to see that they play bball here and not just futbol. i played bball a bunch the other day. i am also playing alot of futbol. i am getting alright but i hurrt my knee the other day. i gave it a nice little twist. i also sprained my big toe on that same play. it sucked but i am alright and walking around fine now. its just alittle tender. i played some futbol in uruguay also, which i will get to soon, and i scored like 5 goals in one game and we won 16 to 8. our team ruled.
so we took a plane from buenos aires to santa cruaz in bolivia to caracass in venezuala to bogota colombia. it was a long long long trip. lots of sitting the the airport but we arrived safely. funny story we missed our flight in santsa cruz and it was my falut bc i was in charge of our little group. but the great thing is God answered our prayers and delayed the flight by an hour so we made it fine. so we didn´t miss it. so before colombia we were in motevideo for a month. while in montevideo we got to have new years and christmas there. let me tell you something about these people. they love to party ok. so on both days right at the strike or midnight on christmas eve and new years eve the whole city explodes. i am not lying one bit but every single house, no matter how rich they are, they all set off fireworks. it was something crazy. you just walk outside 5 min to 12 and get a good standing spot and just start to turn in circles looking at every house setting of fire works. there were a few places that did have some money and you could tell plan it out but it was so cool. we set off a few. one of my friends, she was holding one and while she was holding it in her hand it fired and the thing went into someones yard. it was funny but no one got hurt. we had alot of good food at these parties also and of course there was dancing. these people love to dance. i am learning slowwly but its coming. my robotic movements are slowly leaving me and my body is starting to move a bit. we also had another huge bbq and i will promise to show you how to do a real bbq. these people really knwo how to do it. then another day we had fresh baked pizza in a oven bbq kinda thing. it was so good and i ate so much. i will be going to visit those people when i travel to uruguay in may. so what else happened in urugauy. well we had a boat ride over from buenos aires which was nice. this river we crossed was unbeliveable big. it took us like 3 hours.
so before we went to uruguay we had a conference in buenos aires. i think i left off just before that last time. so the bus ride to that was a full day. it took forever but we got there. when we got there we started to meet alot of people right away. i meet some guy from langley and he knew my last name. he knew my bro jarrett and he worked for my dad. so that was real crazy. i also meet another guy from abby that goes to ucfv. it was a really cool conference. we were there for 5 days and had some amzing talks. i met so many people that i will be visiting on my travels. tons in argentina and in uruguay, bolivia, and some in chile. while we were there i learned alot and had a good time with alot of ywamers from around teh world. it was cool cause joseph showed up for 2 days also. so i got to see him for 10 min. he knew way to many people there. i think that is about all i got for that conference for now.
bogota is awesome. let me tell you how great the food is. it rules. its true we do have rice everyday for lunch and dinner but for breakfast, we get cereal and fresh fruit. like we get a different kind of fruit each day. there are so many of them here. i could never remember all the names. so this morning we had a huge fruit salad this other wierd wierd fruit, and a fried egg. and when i say fried i don´t mean in a pan i mean an egg crack open and deep fried. but they are good and we had some butter bread with it. oh sorry i jsut about forgot we had fresh juice also. we get fresh squeezed juice for every meal. it is so good and rich. i would love to live in colombia. but then i will tell you the downfall. the other day i am soup with cow stomach and intentines in it. it was realy weird but i ate it. we also had pork and bean and by pork i mean they take the pig and a big knife and jsut hack away at it. it you get some skin to big deal, it you get alittle snout no big deal. it wasn´t cool. i didn´t like it. we also had an unreal fish. they also jsut talk the whole thing and fry it up and you eat it all. i didn´t eat the tail or the fins of the head. but my friends did. so that alittle taste on food. also the house we were staying at, the father has a unreal testimony. he used to be in the secret police in colombia and then he had a bust and some drug deals made him go to jail bc they have so much power. he went for 2 years and then got invovled in drug dealing of cocaine. one time him and his friends stole 1500 kilos of cocaine from a barn that had 5000 kilos. crazy stuff. he has an unreal testimony of how he got saved also. but i did met a drug dealer. that was cool and he is super nice and loves God and hospitable.
so what has God done in my life lately. alot alot alot. its real cool to live life with him daily. he is just becoming more and mroe real to me and jsut learning about him and his attibutes rule. and he is such a personal God. i can´t even explain it or put it into words. but its good. God is also jsut using me in so many ways. for a long time i was struggling with hwo is God going to use me. i can´t talk to people all that well. it tough to get a convo going but he is using me alot. in the dramas alot forsure. people love the dramas alot. alos with sports. i get to talk with them and play with them and show them that sports is about worshiping God and not about personal acheivments. also whenever i talk people love it and God always gives me something to say. and people jsut really are blessed by me being here and wanting to be with them and show them love. he is alos really using my testimony and my strong family upbringing. one thing that is tough is that everyone always is watching me bc i am different. and its really hard not to get discouraged when you don´t understand all of the language and you can´t speak it fluently. but i am getting really good. i understand alot. and i can speak alot but the sentance structure is so different from english but i will get by here soon enough. so i think that is all for now. i am sorry there are no pics but they won´t load right now. so next week i go to another part ot colombia. about 2 hours outside bogota. there is is scorching hot and so are the other places. here in bogota it alot like home. we are up in the mountains at 2500 feet. so it ain´t all that hot. but its good. then the 4th week we will be working with deaf mute kids for 2 weeks. that will be tough but it will be great and them another place for week 7 and back to bogota for week 8 and then pichilemu. so ya friends family and others. keep praying alot and thanks for your prayers. love ya and see ya in july i think. shalom
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Good update bro. Sounds like God is doing wonders over there. Keep it up, Jamie