Wow! I spent I lot of time in church today! I love being able to worship with my brothers and sisters in any language, but sometimes when it is in Spanish I hit a wall. Generally our Sunday morning worship service lasts from 9-11:30 and then there is class. Today was victorious because Haley cried very little through the worship service and the class time. After class, some ladies asked me to come to the ladies meeting at three. I was hesitant, but mostly only because I really wasn't sure if I wanted to listen to Spanish for that much longer, but nevertheless I agreed, and for that I am happy.

We got home at 1:30 and I had one hour to relax before I had to leave again. I got to the church a few minutes before 3 and to my surprise we were underway with the Bible study by 3:10. Before we started each person greeted everyone in the room with a kiss on the cheek and a very warm "Dios le bendiga" which means God bless you. Even as people arrived late, whoever was speaking would pause and say "Bienvenida; Dios le bendiga." We sang together and had a Bible study and lifted each other up in prayer and had a trivia game with each answer the lady explained both how they resisted God's call and how he used them.

As I imagined, my head was hurting before the day was over, but I am happy that I went. I plan on attending the monthly ladies meetings during my last months here in CR. I arrived back home a bit after 5.

Between the worship service, class and the Ladies Bible Study, here are a few things I learned:

In worship we talked about Moses. Moses was 120 years when God called him from the burning bush. He had a list of reasons not to do what God called him to do (of which he tried to tell God), but God was able to use hime to do great things. There is no excuse big enough to reject God's calling.

In class we talked about how as Christians we should not live like the rest of the world in our actions or in how we speak. Also we should never be ashamed to tell people we are Christians.

In the ladies' Bible study we talked about how important it is to use our talents to serve God. This is an important thing to remember, and God must be trying to tell me something because it was the 3rd time in 2 weeks since I have heard a lesson about using your talents and not ignoring them.

Please share with me what you learned today.