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26 June 2009

Argentina!

Since I've last written, I turned 22. Spent my birthday traveling to Argentina. Spent the next 10 days in Argentina. Encountered God in some new amazing ways. Learned some very important lessons. Made some wonderful new friends.

Seriously--God is GOOD!

I have a ton of stories to share from Argentina, and I will try to post them periodically over the next few weeks.

But for tonight, I'll just share one. On our first ministry day in Argentina, our team's bus driver got confused and took us to the wrong place...then we got back to the church that was our meeting point and were going to have to wait for a translator before we could do anything. So, we're sitting in the bus chilling out, and Mario (our coordinator) comes up and apologizes for us having to wait. All of a sudden, one of the people on the team goes--well Toni speaks Spanish. And...all of a sudden, I was a translator.

What an experience! It was crazy, but I think it actually went okay. The students totally seemed to understand what I was saying, and what was even more amazing--every time I couldn't think of a word, the kids knew exactly what word I was looking for. There is no way that they all were that fluent in English, so I totally think that God performed a miracle, so that these kids could learn more about Him. I couldn't be more excited or humbled to be used by Him in such a way! Thank you Lord for the chance to serve you, it is an incredible priviledge.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

so...this is an old post...but i just read it. and its awesome that you got to be a translator on your trip! although, ive heard that the spanish in argentina has interesting quirks in it.

:)

hope all is well chica!

DruAnn H. said...

It's true Jen! They use "vos" and "os" as the you conjugations of ser...it's weird! I never actually quite got the hang of that part. hahah. And some of the vocabulary is different too...it was interesting to say the least!