mucho gusto

We are here. We arrived in El Salvador around 730am Sunday morning. After a perfectly lovely red eye flight, we got all 22 of our bags and made our way outside. Jonathan Perkins and Chris Boyer were there holding up this sign. It was so encouraging.


Also, Leo Landaverde´s dad came to greet us at the airport as well. It was great to see him too.

We loaded up into our microbus with our tour guide Julio and drove to church. It was great to get there and be greeted by all of the disciples. Bievenidos! Mucho gusto! I love the hearts of disciples. They are the same wherever you go. It was great trying to sing songs in Spanish. One of them I knew - I hear God singing to me.

We had some translators sitting around us trying to help us keep up. Josue preached a great message about cleaning out your heart. At least that´s what I think it was about. The lack of sleep and Spanish service was too much for Jonathan. He feel asleep on his mom pretty early in the service.

After church, we all split up to go to our host´s homes. My family is staying with Josue and Veronica and their two wonderful kids, Aldo and Monse, ages 7 and 5. We took a really long nap, and then spent the evening talking and getting to know each other. They are such incredible people, and we feel so connected with them already. Then we taught them to play Nertz, of course. Aldo is a pro already.

Today is a national holiday - the day of the dead. Everything is shut down here in the city. So we are going to do some sightseeing up in the northern part of the country. We are going somewhere where they make and sell lots of touristy type stuff. We are going to start the day having breakfast and a devotional at Mr. Donut in about twenty minutes.

Apparently it rained really hard last night, but Traci and I slept right through it. I love sleep...

Tonight, I will get to spend some time with their worship team. I¨m really looking forward to that.

More to come...