Slow progression

It still hasn't really hit me that I'm doing this.

Every day still feels the same; the Spanish lessons just feel like something I'm doing on the side.

I know this will change. I know the closer we get, the more proactive we are, the more it will start to hit me.

But right now? It all kind of seems just like an idea, like something that is not actually taking shape.

I want more than that. I want to be excited, to be inspired. I want to have my heart so in tune with what it is we're doing that this trip crosses my mind almost as frequently as God does.

I want this to be the reason for pushing forward right now.

¿Habla usted español?

The first step on my journey has been to start learning Spanish. I first developed the desire to do this when I visited Cuba in 2005. It's a beautiful language, and as I discovered while in Cuba, quite similar to French. Similar enough that at the time, while I was still fluent in French, I managed to understand a lot of what was said to me.

I figured actually going somewhere to work with people who speak the language was the perfect reasoning to both learn and have the opportunity to use my newly learned skills.

So far I've only had two lessons (with an amazing friend who I am SO grateful for doing this for me), but I think I'm doing pretty well. I've only learned some of the basics (Dates, Alphabet, greetings, the two forms of To Be, pronouns and some basic items), but I seem to be handling them fairly well. I've started writing all my dates on my notepads in Spanish, and keep sticky notes on different items as a reminder of what they are.

Unfortunately I can't say I've started much else in prep yet as things have been crazy busy, but it's going to be coming up fast.

Buenos Dias mi amigos!

Team Guatemala 2012... it starts.

The last two years Broadway Pentecostal Church has sent a mission's team to Guatemala. Both years my parents have gone, and this past year my sister had the opportunity to go.

This coming year, it's my turn.

I've wanted to go on a Mission's trip since my early teen years, but have not had the opportunity before.

Finances are going to be tight, but I believe that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to.

This blog will be for the sole purpose of documenting my journey, from beginning to end.

This will be a life changing event, and it starts long before we board the plane.