Visiting

As Nuevas Fuerzas finished in December due it being summer holidays in Peru now, I decided in December/January to go and visit a few of them in their houses. 

This has been nice going to their houses, getting to know their families better and also being treated to lunch in a couple of the houses. Love the Peruvian food.

I started off my visiting just after Christmas by visiting Sharon and her family. I was nervous about going out to her house as never been there and am not that good on the combi's here when I don't know where am going - but I found my way so all was good. I arrived at their house at 10.00 and left at 2pm so a good long visit. 

Sharon's mum made me lunch which was lovely and it was nice sharing a meal with the family and talking more to them - they were very interested to learn more about Ireland and we discussed the similarities and differences between the two countries. 

with Sharon

I did not have anymore visits until the second week of January. This time I decided to take the Pastor's wife with me. She is taking over in Nuevas Fuerzas so we both thought it would be a good idea if she came along to get to know the young adults and their families better and also know where they live.

We started off visiting Vanessa on the Monday, then Alejandro on the Tuesday. I am glad I was not on my own going to Alejandro's as we both got lost.... 

We stayed about 5 hours with Alejandro and his mum Julia. Again we had lunch there which was lovely. Julia and Bethsaida talked about Christianity and the church whilst Alejandro and I did jigsaws together and played on a wee computer which does English and Spanish words... he loves the music on it.  

With Alejandro

Then on the Wednesday we visited Kati 2 (there are two Kati's in Nuevas Fuerzas)... thankfully she lives two minutes away from the church so we had no way of getting lost that day. 

On the Friday I went to see Maribel (on my own). I have been visiting her every week since June. This was my last visit and Maribel started to cry. I told her not to cry as I would cry, but she did. I did not cry until I get on the combi home and then cried all the way home - it was so sad saying goodbye to her. We have developed a good friendship over the past 8 months. I will miss our weekly sessions of studying the Bible and playing Uno as well. Who will volunteer to have weekly Uno sessions with me? Or Bible Studies?

With Maribel's Family

Now we reach the second week of January where I just had one visit planned and that was to Laura (again went on my own). Laura is a funny girl  - she was telling me about her 20 boyfriends.  I said I just want one and you have 20 that is not fair, she just smiled at me!

For the third week of January (this week) I had arranged to go and visit Kati 1, but went I went to her house with the Pastor's wife she was not in, so that was sad I did not get to see her. However she phoned me later on in the afternoon so got a wee chat on the phone with her.

I am going to have to find people to visit when I get home, so if you want a visit from me, just let me know...