Every day here in Spain is an interesting one.
Today we spent the whole morning as a group, talking about our stories, and about the upcoming weeks. In the afternoon a few of us went on a hunt to find camera chargers. (I wasn't the only one who neglected that item) Alas, no luck. We hope to go into the actual city of Malaga later in the week to search for them there. The day was not a total loss though. Today I had my first ever visit to an IKEA store. It was rather interesting. We had fun wandering the maze and looking at various model room setups. I have to say, if it weren't for the big arrows everywhere it would be incredibly easy to get lost there.
Later that afternoon while everyone was doing there own thing, I decided to go help one of the staff members make dinner. She and I had fun experimenting in the kitchen while singing along with the radio. It was a different experience for me too, because I had never cooked for so many people - Not only were there the 6 of us plus staff, but also a team of 5 Dutchmen coming to do maintenance on the house, and our speaker for this next week also arrived this evening.
It was quite a roomful with everyone there, but in a good way.
I love the automatic sense of community and family here. It doesn't matter that we didn't even know these new, large men. We all fell into easy community because of our mutual love for the Lord.
Being here feeling this feeling... I can't help but think that this is exactly how it should be for all believers, everywhere. We should all have our homes open to one another always, and live in fellowship more deeply with one another.
After dinner we played a Bible trivia game. We were all pretty ashamed of how few specifics we could come up. I especially felt the shame, knowing that I should know most of the answers from my 4 years in a private Christian school, and taking Bible classes all the while, not to mention growing up in the church.
I am most definitely renewing my determination to become consistent in my Bible studying.
'Rambo' and I have a friend whose passion is studying the Bible. There is certainly nothing he loves more than studying the Bible, talking about the Bible, applying the Bible to real situations. If ever anyone has a question about the Bible or anything in the Bible, 'Rambo' and I always automatically think to ask this friend.
I want to be more like that. I want to really get a passion for studying the Bible and talking about it. I know that it is not my calling like it is his, but I want to have more of what I see in him than I have now. I am going to pray God gives me that passion, and any prayers anyone else wants to send up on my behalf can certainly address that. =]
Today we spent the whole morning as a group, talking about our stories, and about the upcoming weeks. In the afternoon a few of us went on a hunt to find camera chargers. (I wasn't the only one who neglected that item) Alas, no luck. We hope to go into the actual city of Malaga later in the week to search for them there. The day was not a total loss though. Today I had my first ever visit to an IKEA store. It was rather interesting. We had fun wandering the maze and looking at various model room setups. I have to say, if it weren't for the big arrows everywhere it would be incredibly easy to get lost there.
Later that afternoon while everyone was doing there own thing, I decided to go help one of the staff members make dinner. She and I had fun experimenting in the kitchen while singing along with the radio. It was a different experience for me too, because I had never cooked for so many people - Not only were there the 6 of us plus staff, but also a team of 5 Dutchmen coming to do maintenance on the house, and our speaker for this next week also arrived this evening.
It was quite a roomful with everyone there, but in a good way.
I love the automatic sense of community and family here. It doesn't matter that we didn't even know these new, large men. We all fell into easy community because of our mutual love for the Lord.
Being here feeling this feeling... I can't help but think that this is exactly how it should be for all believers, everywhere. We should all have our homes open to one another always, and live in fellowship more deeply with one another.
After dinner we played a Bible trivia game. We were all pretty ashamed of how few specifics we could come up. I especially felt the shame, knowing that I should know most of the answers from my 4 years in a private Christian school, and taking Bible classes all the while, not to mention growing up in the church.
I am most definitely renewing my determination to become consistent in my Bible studying.
'Rambo' and I have a friend whose passion is studying the Bible. There is certainly nothing he loves more than studying the Bible, talking about the Bible, applying the Bible to real situations. If ever anyone has a question about the Bible or anything in the Bible, 'Rambo' and I always automatically think to ask this friend.
I want to be more like that. I want to really get a passion for studying the Bible and talking about it. I know that it is not my calling like it is his, but I want to have more of what I see in him than I have now. I am going to pray God gives me that passion, and any prayers anyone else wants to send up on my behalf can certainly address that. =]
Well, my roommates are already asleep and I believe I will join them.
Buenas noches. <3
Buenas noches. <3
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