Mendoza, Argentina

When we arrived there was very nice people waiting for us. And you know that they are very nice people because since the beginning... they were waiting until 3 a.m. 

Let me explain why the bus arrived late, so late.

First, We thought the bus was leaving at 11 am, what end up being the wrong information, it was leaving ( on the ticket said that ) at 8.40 am, so, the first reaction was, "We miss the bus!!" then we ran to the man in the information area, and he said, "i think that bus was canceled and replaced by one leaving at 5:00 pm", immediately we went to a lady, that told us that the road was under construction, so in the mornings no transportation was allow to go trough. We wait in the bus station until the time came to jump on the bus, it was not a bad bus, but we reach the point were the traffic was stopped. We stay there for couple hours, until slowly the this long line start moving, finally when was dark we made it to the border.

In the border, again, it was a line to do all the paper work for the visa, and we face a problem, it was needed for the people from U.S. to pay a fee to cross the border, that is valid for 10 years, but we didn't know that. It was pretty expensive. After going trough we made it to Mendoza.

So we arrived on Tuesday, we were able to rest a little bit that day, on Wednesday in the morning we were able to visit Mendoza downtown, it was a beautiful walk, we saw the main plaza which is beautiful. In the evening we started the teaching that lasted 4 nights, it was a powerful teaching, Leona taught about Christian Counseling, it was a huge blessing for the church, but also, it was such a blessing for the translator ( that one is me ), I learned the theory of how to deal with pain, in general, now i am trying to apply it. The Lord is destroying some of the faulty walls i have in my life... I praise the Lord for that. Ezekiel 13, is the chapter, how God destroy the walls, It was God.

Also in Mendoza we did some street evangelism, it was good, we showed the Drama "Judas", and also we were walking around in the plaza, telling bible stories to some young people in the plazas. We had also a good time with Damian, we talk a lot about bible stories, and how can they use them to plant new churches. And guess what? The church in Mendoza is planning to start new churches in different areas.

On Saturday, the church had an special treat for us, stake!!, the famous Argentinian stake, they came to the pastoral house, where we stayed, one of the brothers of the church, who is an Artist of the Asado, cooked the stake, it was so delicious, but something else happened, a truck crash the Pastor's Car, it was a difficult time for everyone. Pastor Leo, arrived minutes earlier, and he was in the pastoral house with us, when this happened. It was such a blessing how a man of God was able to deal with his situation. Please pray for him, now he does not have a car, and he has a family to take care of, the pastor is bi-vocational. 

It was a blessed time, I praise the Lord for that. Without Him, we are really nothing.