Jon and Lorena

Chile

Argentina

Kind of like Peru

Salto, Paysandu, and Young

Day ?????

I don't even know what day it is anymore, but I can tell you where I'm at. I'm on my way to Santiago, Chile but only half way there. This morning one of the missionaries from Uruguay drove me about five hours to Buenos Aires, Argentina, which is where I'm at now. I will be leaving in only a few hours!
This week has been an intense week. I mentioned earlier that I have been speaking almost everywhere I go. Well, I have continued to do so. Tuesday I went to the small city of Young, about an hour away, and had the opportunity to preach. This city has no evangelical church but hast a handful of believers. In the slide show above you will see the picture of myself and three elderly people. They came to the midweek service, which Sergio Duarte runs. They were so thankful to have me there and to have me preach. I can not tell you what an encouragement they were to me! Their faithfulness to the Lord was such an example. One lady (in the picture to my right), Julia, was learning to read for the first time but by using the Bible. How awesome is that! No better way to learn to read than by using God's own Words!
Wednesday morning, I had the opportunity to challenge the camp counselors in a short devotional. I admit that I was so tired from the night before, that my Spanish began to fail me at times. I'm so rusty! Wish I could use it more consistently. At any rate, the rest of the day was spent either helping set up games, reffing games, or taking part in the games! We had an evening activity where the different cabins had to accomplish certain objectives at eight different zones. However there were bandits roaming about! Yep, I took part in that responsibility. Scaring people seems to be on one of my fortes. Maybe it's the Peruvian in me coming out! Anyway, the kids loved it. I'm thankful to God for having allowed me to work at Camp Calvary a few years ago. Many of the ideas for the game came from my time working at Camp Calvary.

Day One and Two

So this is where I’m at now. I arrived in the small town of Paysandu, Uruguay yesterday morning at seven thirty in the morning. Two days of traveling, two flights, two taxis, and one bus later we arrived. The only really exciting experience during the trip was the fact that we jumped out of our taxi and ran across the Uruguay River in order to get in front of the huge line of cars waiting to cross the boarder from Colon, Argentina into Paysandu, Uruguay. We rolled our luggage up to the window where the cars were supposed to go through and began the paper work to cross the boarder. We felt kind of funny doing it because there were cars ahead of us and behind us yet we were just standing in the middle of the road with all our luggage! I guess we were the typical stupid gringos.
Anyway, last night I had the opportunity to speak at a youth group. However, I did not know I was speaking until I got there. That was a little fun to say the least! That night the pastor also asked me to speak at his church the following morning. That is actually where I just got back from. We had a great morning service…not because I spoke though. This afternoon I am traveling to another small town, Salto, and will be preaching there as well. Please pray that I will be used in each church, and that I will get a good feel of what God is doing in each of these ministries!
The plan for the rest of the week in Uruguay is to simply play it by ear. Plans are being made on the spur of the moment and no one knows what is nex. This makes life exciting.
The picture above is a picture of my flight crossing over the Andes Mountains from Chile and headed to Buenos Aires, Argentina. What a view! The other picture is me driving the missionary’s sweet car!