Aqui estoy!

Hey everybody! I am here in Paraguay finally... (1) after a delayed flight in Shreveport, LA (2) a hurried run to my next flight from Houston to Sao Paulo, Brazil where I sat for 10 hours by a Croatian man who only wanted to talk to me about ¨senoritas¨ (3) arriving in Brazil to find out my flight was full and I waited 6ish hours for the next (delayed) flight (4) buying carbonated water by accident and spilling it all over myself (after dropping my food on the floor) (5) and spending the rest of the day trying not to look like I don´t know what´s going on and am traveling by myself. whew! It feels good to be here.

Once I arrived, I dropped my things at the apartment where I will live and went to my friends´, the Yegros family´s, house for a late dinner. It was so great to be with friends I hadn´t seen in a year, but it didn´t feel like it had been that long at all. It has been really exciting to experience sights and smells and sounds I´d forgotten over the past year and I am really looking forward to seeing friends´faces throughout the day and week.

I am so thrilled to have this opportunity to return and encourage the people here, teach English, hang out at the orphanage, etc. I am also so happy that you all are invested in this trip too, with your prayers, finances, interest, and love. Please pray that God will do amazing things this month here in Paraguay and that Christ will be shown in many ways.

*On a sadder note, I received an email last night from a friend in Costa Rica who said that the father of my Costa Rican dad (my house parent) was killed. He was a taxi driver and was attacked by someone who got in his car. Naturally, this is really hard on them, but my CR parents are going to have their first baby and this happened a few years ago to another family in the church. Please pray for peace and comfort for all of those who knew him. He was a really great Christian man and a leader in the church.

Thank you all again!

Shannon