Speaking Partners

Apart from Spanish class every day, we meet with speaking partners as well! They are various students from the Facultad de Lenguas, the language school here, and are working on degrees in English and translation. We meet with different students each day and get to practice our Spanish and help them practice their English. The Lord has blessed us with a good amount of time every day to just hang out with them and try to have intentional converstations about our faith and what we believe. I can already tell that some good relationships are forming and we are getting to talk about more things with depth. I had a great conversation with one of them this past Wednesday and was about to talk about my faith in Christ and how He gives me a hope and peace. She said she admired people with that kind of faith and seemed interested in possibly coming to a local church meeting sometime. Please be praying for her heart to be softened, because she said that there had been some things in her past that have pushed her away from God and a relationship with Him. Times like those are encouraging to me, knowing that I am here for a purpose and that ultimately I am here to help share the gospel and the power it can have in one's life.

We also had the opportunity to help out with an English Talk, a conversational English time where anyone can come and just practice English, last night. It was great to meet new students and make some new connections. Be praying that we can follow up with a few of them to talk with again. I met one girl last night who was really into tango and said that I could go watch a tango competition with her one time or even attend a class! Haha I will come back in August as a Spanish speakin, tango dancin chica!