I already LOVE this place!!!

We arrived here in El Salvador yesterday! Everything went smoothly through the airport.  I absolutely love our house!!  My roommates are Michayla and Lane!  I finally finished setting up my corner of the room and put my pictures up of friends and family around my bed. :)  Orientation was great as well, it was a great way to get to know our team.  Wednesday afternoon we went camping in the woods.  It was definitely a good time to get to know our team!  I love all of them so much!  While we were camping we went over Radical and our devotional.  I’m so happy that we were given the book Radical to read. It was completely eye opening to me and made me realize what my life must look like!  Thursday, we signed the Radical commitment, that is a one year experiment, and it has 5 challenges.  The first one is read through the entire Word, pray for the entire world, sacrifice my money for a specific purpose, spend time in a different context, and commit my life to a multiplying community.  So, I am planning on completing this commitment this year!

This morning we went to La Iglesia for church!  The music was awesome as well as Mario's sermon.  There was a person translating for Mario this morning in English, however I've heard this could be the only Sunday he is translating.  But hey, that will definitely help us with our Spanish!  Last night a few people came from the church so it was great seeing them and talking with them again!  After church we went to Pizza Hut and few people from the church came too!  They are such sweet people, everyone here is so sweet. La Iglesia is the church we will be working with this year. It's a fairly new church that was planted not that long ago.  And I think that we will be helping alot with the youth and reaching the community!  I am so excited to get started! :)  And later after Pizza Hut the guys, Holly and I went to play soccer a few blocks down from our house.  It was really fun!  The Salvadorans definitely schooled us at soccer!  On the way home from the field we stopped and Andrew bought us bags of water. It was good, and yes mom it was fine to drink. ;)  And then we walked to a mango stand and Andrew bought some bags of mangos.  They put alot of spices and other stuff in it, wasn't my favorite.  Also, just the regular mangos had salt on them, also not my favorite.  Glad I tried it though.  So we are going to try and find a fresh fruit stand. :)  This week is pretty much orientation week in El Salvador!

-Grace :)