around 20 days

quite interesting last night....when my room started to shake.....thinking of course at first that it was just the biggest chicken bus to ever come down calle san luquitas......but it was in fact a tremor....or maybe a small earthquake.....4.5 i believe........so i celebrated today by breaking down 100 percent...and secretly going to mcDonalds...it was as delighfully gross as i remembered...but spanish is going okay....a place to plug in as far as community goes on the other hand....is completely non existent, at lest to my knowledge at this point.....I went to a YWAM bible study the other night...and i think i tuned out around the part where she said(best read in a staunch, but quick southern accent),¨God is able! he can make you stop cussing, and drinking too......oh and by the way, dont let anyone ever stamp your forehead with 666, dont laugh ya´ll we are in the end times and ya´ll know it!¨but if me and christy dont find an apartment soon....i may take a bus to ecuador and stay with my friend maria for a while....or i may go work on this farm www.websamba.com/laflorida in the mountains.....who knows...but.....i am starting to realize

*Its all about family

*unconditional love can be very sad....you pray for, you hope, you want, you love...and all the while, it has to be okay that friendship may never come....perhaps just a spit in the face

*that my time in virginia was as good as i remember it. and that however small a glimpse, it was in fact enough, enough love to keep a group of people together forever, if only in their memories.

*that Jesus is more a simple mystery than i will ever be able to fathom.

*and that i miss you.

-here are some pics from panajachel and my new little sisters(so they call themselves)