I went to church with my family today for the first time. I am really beginning to realize how truly blessed I am to have been placed in this family. My mom is amazing and her heart for the Lord is so apparent, I love to watch her interact with other. (as weird as that sounds) She is so genuine and loving in everything she does, I can see now why she does so well with exchange students! She is in-charge of the sunday school at the church and lights up when she talks about it. She was telling me yesterday how excited she was to start (it began today) and she made a ton of these little pencils for the kids. I can't imagine how long it took her to make them all!
Church was great. One thing I really loved was how everyone participated, not just a select few. At the beginning, the pastor asked for orations (prayers of thanks) and pretty much every other person spoke up and said something, and the same thing at the end when he asked for prayer requests. I love the boldness that this country has. The way they greet each other, the way they love one another, the way they have fun- everything! When you walk in a room and kiss everyone, regardless of whether or not you know them, it take out the potential awkwardness! Of whether or not you should say hi to that person over there that you kinda know, but not really, and then when it gets to be too long you definitely cant go say hi because its been too long and now it would definitely be awkward...... america can learn from south america!
All in all I really enjoyed it and a few of the kids my age invited me to come to the youth service on next saturday so I think I'm going to try that!
Also- i discovered that in my yard there is a pomegranate tree!! Either my mom doesn't know, or she just doesn't like pomegranates, because ive never seen them eat one. I sure did though....
(very tiny, but still good)
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