I was now entering into a new chapter of my life, that one year ago I never would have imagined. My first few days in the country were spent living with our directors and my 3 teammates, we got new information and slowly started getting introduced to the culture.
The traffic, the sounds, food, language, sights and smells are all different than the familiarity that I left back home in Canada.... I'm in another part of Gods world!
4 days after arriving into the country, I was riding the very short distance from our directors house to my new family. As I saw what had become the 'normal' of my time here further behind me, I started to panic.
My Spanish was limited to what I'd learned from Dora The Explorer, yes I'd lived with families before, but the longest duration being 7 days. Now I'm moving into a house with a family for 6 months that I can't even communicate with! What was I going to do?!
Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. - Matthew 11:28
God is with me! He's the one that brought me here, He's the one that knew exactly what I needed at this point in my life. God is good.We've been in language class now for around 3 weeks, I find myself thinking in Spanish. I definitely can understand A LOT more than what I could the first night in my host home. I'm still having a little trouble putting my Spanish thoughts into words (but I have that trouble in English as well haha)
Becoming familiar with cultural norms has been a highlight for me, the people are all so pleasant here and I'm thankful for all that we are being taught about the culture, but there's just something special about living with a local family, being immersed and included in their every day life.
Prayer Request: That myself and my team will be impacted by those that we meet here in Honduras and along the journey.
God Bless,
-- Nikki
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