Answers to prayers - He is faithful (Dios es fiel.)

Today marks 2 weeks that we have stayed in the Pereira home . We are at the halfway point of our home stay. We have been so blessed to be in a wonderful warm home. It has been a safe place to get our feet wet with the Spanish language and Argentine culture. God has been meeting some of our HUGE prayer requests and we wanted to let you know that your prayers are being answered....SO THANK YOU AND KEEP PRAYING!

First of all, we were able to set up a weekly schedule for our language study. We will be going downtown Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 9am to noon. Our tutor is flexible so we may be able to add a few hours or even another day later on, if we need to. Our tutor, Paulina is a young professor from the University here in Tucuman. She has taught many foreigners Spanish (Castillano) and is also answering a lot of cultural questions for us right now.

So we had a little adventure our first & second class. We needed to take the bus from our host home downtown and get off close to Paulina's apartment. Well, Monday we took the wrong bus, therefore we went downtown, then out of the city and to a suburb. We finally exited the bus and had to take a taxi to the apartment (an hour and a half adventure). Then today, we got on the right bus (#7) and as we neared Paulina's apartment, the bus took a detour due to construction. We didn't realize that we missed our stop and by the time we got off the bus we were a full 30 min. walk away from the apartment (another unexpected adventure). Please pray our travel to the class on Friday is UNEVENTFUL!!!

Another prayer request that burdened my (Beth's) heart deeply, was finding a nanny for Zane. Praise the Lord! Our Canadian friend, Ann, told us of her friend, who speaks English, has taught kindergartners English, is taking night classes and NEEDED A JOB! So Ivanna will start taking care of Zane this Friday. Last week she came by and I was able to see her interact with Zane. We talked about his likes/dislikes, schedule, food, discipline etc...all of the things that mommys think about during the day. I think she is going to be a wonderful fit for Zane and for us. Thank you for your prayers. FYI- Ann, our Canadian friend, watched Zane yesterday and today while we were at class. Zane did very well and had no tears, just lots of playing!

This last weekend we were able to go to a Church Retreat only a few miles out of town. We had a wonderful time meeting new friends, eating new food, relaxing, and speaking A LOT of Spanish. We were blessed by worship and teaching....in Spanish. We understood the heart of what was being said. Below are some pictures from the retreat, our host home, the park, and Zane playing.

Zane loved swimming in the pool at the Church Retreat (El Campamento) this weekend.

Zane & Gabriel exploring the retreat center at night.

Zane and David playing at the park 3 blocks from our host home.

Zane and Loli (our host mother) coloring on the Aqua doodle.

The church group having lunch (their largest meal of the day) at the retreat.

Worship and teaching at the retreat

These are the swings at the park....quite different.

Zane, Constanza, and Gabriel made a fort out of blankets and were having a blast.

(Building blanket forts must be universal!)

WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE THIS TIME NOW TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND ENCOURAGEMENT.

WE COULD NOT BE HERE WITHOUT YOU.