Greetings from Peru, dear family and friends! We made it safe and sound and we are already working away. The following blog is from Josh:
Hello from Peru!!! I am finally getting a chance to write to you after being here a few days. We have been here since Monday night/Tuesday morning at 12:30 or so. Needless to say we did not get to bed till about 2. But it was still good to finally to rest in a bed. Then on Tuesday we went and found all the supermarkets and the bakery for our food supplies. Then we rested finally. Tuesday night we had a meeting to get our readers to sign up. However the number was a little lower than expected it was still a good turnout. We each have about 3, 4, or 5 readers. After the meeting we sat around and talked about the meeting and then went to bed to rest up for our first day of reading. It was a little rough for me to get up at seven in the morning to get ready and eat breakfast because being a college student, I am used to sleeping in till y classes at about 10. Therefore I would get up at 9:50 and still be on time. But here I force myself to get up because I need to be awake and alert so I can understand my reader. I have my first one at nine and he is actually very good with his English. The others not so good. But that is fine I am here to assist with that. Now that I have done this a few times I am getting more and more comfortable with being here and talking to the people. I am actually remembering a lot of Spanish from when I took it in high school my freshman year. I think its because I am around it all the time. But I have now started to speak “spanglish” and I like it. But I have also started to develop a Spanish accent with my English words and it just sounds weird and I catch it after the fact that I do it. But I guess that is the joy of living in another country. So far we are all having a good time and are eager for the next two weeks to come. I will try to report something about every other day or so to let you guys know how we are doing and what we have done. I may also ask Vern, Daniel, or Mindy to write something to you as well like one of their experiences or favorite moment. But that is all for now so I hope you will follow up on us and pray for us. We thank you all for caring and we love you. God Bless!!!! =)
