Solito

The title of todays blog reflects my current state.  Dave and Tarryn have left me for the weekend, they have gone to a camp with their ministry and left me to man the quarters.   They will blog on Sunday night when they get back from roughin' it and you will get to hear all about their grand adventures.  I could tell you about my weekend, but so far it's looking like schoolwork, teaching english, more schoolwork, climbing the Cristo, some more schoolwork and maybe 5 church services... just another weekend in Bolivia.  

Since I don't really have any great stories since my last post, I will put up some pictures and at the end I would like to leave a quote from Henri Nouwen (a famous theologian and Roman Catholic evangelist to Bolivia) from his book Gracias: A Latin American Journal (which I highly recommend you read, it's a great book for understanding South American culture). 

(Mayra, Laura, Paola, Jhaki, Josue, Phil, Pablo, Dave)

(St. Paddy's Day - It's older but you haven't seen it yet)

(The Guys: Pablo, Myself, Josue and Dave)

       "This is a hard vocation. It goes against the grain of our need for self-affirmation, self-fulfillment, and self-realization. It is a call to true humility. I, therefore, think that for those who are pulled away from their familiar surroundings and brought into a strange land where they feel again like babies, the Lord offers a unique chance not only for personal conversion but also for an authentic ministry."

 - Henri Nouwen, Gracias (pg. 18)