Bienvenidos a Argentina

Wow, this blogging thing is actually a lot of work. I finally have some time today, after a weekof travelling, sight seeing, intense conversations and nuch lack of sleep to send you an update. I am currently in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, population 20 million- small considering the greater Sao Paulo area of Brazil has 32 million. These cities are huge. Even Rio is large, at about 12 million. Argentina is nice- at least what we have seen of it. It is the beginning of winter here, the leaves are falling off the trees, the parrots are making a rucous in the trees and last night the temperature dropped to zero- yeah, its cold. We came here from Buzios, as my previous update briefly indicated, which is a quaint little resort down 2 1/2 hours down the coast from Rio. There, we went swimming, surfing, and took a three hour boat tour (but did not get shipwrecked). We spent the better part of 24 hours traveling to Argentina, and arrived on Saturday early afternoon. We took an easy day of mostly eating and resting, then went out for a city tour and a coffee.

Sunday was interesting- I went to a Protestant service, which I think was more Anglican, but I was able to understand at least in part the sermon. In the evening, we gathered as a group to pray, sing, and read Scripture. Eacj person took turns opening the Bible and reading the passage they opened to, allowing the Holy Spirit to guide each person and to apply each passage to the individual. It is kinda hard to explain the process in a few words, but I hope you get the gist of it. To me this idea was kind a wierd at first, but once we began, the Spirit really hit home with almost everyone, and the passages that were randomly chosen spoke loudly and clearly to many of us. There were times when some were touched to tears, and I was as well at some of the passages speaking so relevantly and clearly to people. However, I still have this nagging feeling that these seeds that were sown will be readily and esily plucked away. Please, please, pray for these people that are on this trip with me, myself included, that Gods Word will bear much fruit in our lives, and have seving effect in the hearts of those here who do not yet know him.

Tomorrow evening we begin our return trip to Brazil, then I will be off to Peru for a week. I miss you all very much- there is much comaraderie here and I am having a good time, but at the same time I miss the spiritual food I receive being under the Reformed preaching of the word and in conversation with Gods people. I will soon be needing to really recharge my spiritual batteries. See you all soon!

At one of the beaches in Buzios

Our retreat house in Buenos Aires- this is actually the house of the Arch Bishop of Buenos Aires which is rented out by the Christian Life Movement

Me and a boy named Lucas, a grade 1 student at a school we visited.