No such thing as coincidences

Got to sleep in today and then headed out to el centro to meet Taylor, Esther and Alicia.  We learned quickly that nothing is open on Sundays. Nothing. Except McDonalds of course. We ended up eating fast food and then headed to meet Esther's tutor. We walked around the city a little and apparently were too early for the market, so we tried to find a place to sit and have matte or a glass or wine or something, but nothing was open yet. I say et because everything opens at like 6 or 6:30 for dinner! It was 5 and we could not find one restaurant that was open yet- this culture is so different! But I love it. When we failed at finding a restaurant we went to Ana (the tutor) we went to Ana's apartment and had matte with orange juice. Interesting but very good. We walked through the open market (el paseo de las artes) which was amazing. Everything is hand made and I had to stop myself from buying everything! It is all so cheap too- handmade notebooks were like 7 dollars, earrings were from anywhere from 50 cents to 20 dollars. They had jewelry, clothes, matte cups, purses, shoes, food- everything. It is similar to the market in Charleston, but it is stuff that I actually want to buy! We decided that we would come back every sunday and I can't wait.
 After the market we took a taxi to church. The missionaries we met last week told us when and where their church met, so we were excited to experience Argentina church. It was amazing. So personal and everyone there was like family. We were there a little early so we got to talk some of them one on one and it was great! When I say we I mean mainly Taylor who is more or less fluent and Esther and I use her to translate a good bit- but we are learning! haha
I loved the service though. We sang worship songs it was really helpful to have the lyrics and hear it at the same time. It sounds obvious, but when I can read what you're saying I can hear the correct pronunciation and understand exactly what you mean- not just get the vocab and figure it out from your hand gestures! I would say I understood about 30% of the sermon, but my bilingual bible (thanks katie tanner!!) was very helpful and I was able to really follow where he was in the sermon. I am excited to become a part of that church and have community down here. Such an answer to prayers.
After church we waited at the bus stop for forever. The buses in this city are the most aggregating thing ever. They dont run on a schedule so you never know when one is coming and sometimes they just never come. The bus driver probably decided he didn't want to come to work today so the bus just didn't run! That is pretty much the general feel of a lot of things here though haha
Anyways we ran into Tori and Nikki at the stop and I ended up riding home with Tori who lives right next to me. While Tori and I were waiting for the bus we started talking about church and religion and about a hundred other things. We talked for about an hour and right as we finished talking about how everything happens for a reason and that there is no such thing as coincidences we decided to ask the lady sitting next to us if this was the right stop (we were starting to worry b/c it had been an hour and we hadn't seen our bus) She told us we were on the wrong street and we needed to go three streets over and right then we looked up and our bus pulled up. We both freaked out a little bit about how we had just been talking about coincidences and then that happened! (I knew before I wrote this that this was going to be one of those stories that is really cool to me and Tori, but when you retell it its not that cool, but I dont care cause it was awesome!)
All I have to say about this day is that the Lord amazing. He shows himself in ways that I could never imagine. Even in the form of a bus being an hour late :)

(Me and Tori on the bus)