Your prayers help!

I just want to update everyone who read Monday's blog. If you read the blog, you know that I was having a rough couple days...feeling unqualified to teach and frustrated with the language barrier. While I know that I will still have days like that, things have gotten a lot better. Instead of teaching this past week, I was able to observe Pastor Henry teach the English classes, which have helped me get used to the class. The rest of my Spanish classes this week have also gone smoother. I feel like I'm actually learning more. This week was very busy, so I'll just give a few highlights from the week! On Tuesday I went to the church in Loma Cova where I made some great new friends. Let me tell you, I can communicate in Spanish fairly well with 4 and 5 year olds on the playground. I'd be all set if only everyone in Panama had a 4 year old vocabulary. I think I found my salsa dancing partner that I've been searching for on Wednesday night. The missionaries went over to Ruth's house to learn some salsa and meringue dance moves. Since I'm the only missionary without a husband...I was stuck dancing with the instructor for most of the night...oh darn, a dance partner who actually knows what he's doing. After our Spanish class, we went to see the Panama Canal. It's one of those really neat things to experience, but after about 5 minutes of seeing a boat going down the lock slowly, it was enough. But then a man with a camera wanted to interview me, but decided to stop the camera after finding out that I'm now living in Panama as a missionary. I think he hoped I would say that I came to Panama as a tourist just to see the canal. It was probably some promotional video being put together to build another lock. After the canal I went over to a woman's house from the church to have a Bible study. I thought that it was going to be an adult Bible Study, but to my surprise, there were kids all over the place. Fifteen kids and seven adults live in her house (which from what I could tell is smaller than my apartment). I later found out that awhile back, a group did a VBS right at her house...which attracted about 50 kids from the community! After a long day, I really enjoyed the night. We sang songs after I was attacked by a mob of kids as I got out of the van. Then Pastor Henry gave a message and we prayed. THEN...the kids put on a little dance and poem show. I wish you all could have been there. These kids have some moves! Thank you so much for your prayers...they have made all the difference!