We´re Safe!

Alsiha and I left Asuncion this morning and because my flight was cancelled, we ended up on the same flight to Santiago, Chile. Alisha will be there all this week and I am currently at the airport in Lima, Peru waiting to catch a flight at 8^30 tomorrow morning to Cuzco to meet up with some old family friends.

This morning on my flight from PY to Chile, I sat my a man who was reading a newspaper. An article caught my eye and he let me have that section. I read that Paraguay only has 14 speech pathologists in the country (of over 5 million people!). When I tell people what I`m studying sometimes I feel like they don´t understand how important it is, or they think it just has to do with elementary kids who can`t pronounce certain sounds. There was a quote in the article that I liked (it´s in Spanish, but I´ll translate it.) ``It`s an art to express out feeliongs and furthermore it is the door to our thoughts. Therefore, if a person cannot speak well and doesn´t understand or learn in school, he or she cannot relate to people at work or function in society.`` This is why I am studying what I am. I want to be used where there is the most need. I keep thinking how cool it could be to get together a group of speech pathology friends to form a type of mission team who could help improve people´s qualities of life in the name of Jesus. When I got on the plane I did not expect to start thinking about these things, but God´s funny that way.