Ushering into the World of Blog

So this is my first official "blog". I know, I know...I am so not with the times of the blog world, but with Facebook, Twitter, Skype, FaceTime, etc., you get a little overloaded and I feel like you start duplicating between all these means of communication because I know my life is not "that" exciting for me to uniquely maintain all of these. 


Nonetheless, I am going to attempt at blogging. I, personally, am inspired by a fellow teacher here at ECA, Miss Shar Carlson, because every time I read her's, I laugh out loud hysterically at how she captures her day at ECA so perfectly. 


So - next Wednesday marks 3 months we've been in Spain. Part of it feels like it's flown and part of it feels like I'm not moving at all. We are definitely busy with ministry. Our days begin at 6:15 (M & W) and 6:30 (T, R, & F) in which we rush, get ready, eat breakfast, feed dog, walk dog (Adam - not me :), I have "weekend duty"), get our things together, and then bolt down two flights of stairs to meet Cami who is our gracious ride to school every day. That puts us at getting at school (now when it's sooo dark outside, and depressing) at 7:15 (M/W) and 7:30 (T,R,F). School commences at 9:10 and from there it's a whirlwind of 5 classes of 50 minutes, a 40 minute lunch, and 2 more 50 minute classes. While Adam is teaching most days from 9:10-1:40, I am holding down the finance office fort, making change, collecting tuition, paying bills, and balancing the books. After lunch, I teach the Practical Math class until 3pm and then school ends at 4pm. We usually depart at 5:30-5:45 most days, hopefully getting back to the piso in time before Carson's bladder explodes on our hardwoods. 


Our weeks are busy and go by rather quickly, and we look forward to the weekends greatly :) We are excited each Sunday to go to Centro Evangelico, the church plant we are helping with. It has been established for sometime and currently has 3 other missionary families working in it as well. We range between 10-25 people a Sunday, but have not seen the same mix of people since we started helping 3 months ago. We have also already seen one lady, Gloria, accept Christ! Keep praying for her! 


So when there is time to sit and rest, we stand amazed at the opportunity and privilege to be here in Spain. There are days, especially the last week or so, when I long to see family and old friends. And while I yearn to be back in "comfort", I look around and am reminded at how lost this world actually is, and it takes people getting out of their comfort zones to share the Gospel and spread the name of Jesus. We should never take this privilege/call lightly.