Day 3 - May 16th - Thursday

I love being a country where I can understand what the people are saying half the time! For those of you who don't know, I took four years of Spanish in high school with an incredible teacher, but it's been three years since I actually put any of that to good use. Thankfully it seems to have stuck with me anyway! The first half of our day was just spent traveling to a little church where we're staying for the week; six girls in an apartment upstairs, six boys in a back room downstairs. Here we'll be working with missionaries J.D. and Sara Bennett (a really fun, sweet couple - J.D. graduated from SDCC, so he loves chatting with us about professors and places!) and Frank and Salud Benoit (and their teenage daughter Elisabeth, who will act as our guide on some of our adventures). We went to the church's Thursday night Bible study/prayer meeting thing. There were only about ten people there, so it was a really open and friendly event. And I understood so much of what J.D. said in his message! Spanish makes me so happy. :)