And the Journey Begins

I made it to Lima last night around 11:00 where Willy and Amalia (my homestay brother and sister from last year) came to pick me up. We got back to the house where I went up stairs and mami (the homestay mother/grandmother) looked at me with quite a surprised look on her face and then just started giggling as she always does. No one had told her that I was coming so it was a surprise for her. I stayed up for a few hours talking, and eating of course. There are also two girls staying here from the same study abroad program that I came with last year. I'll spend a few more days here in Lima just relaxing and visiting with the friends and family here.

I also would like to talk a little bit about my trip and why I came back to Peru. Originally I was going to go with my family to Brazil and then afterwards I was going to travel to Bolivia to do missions there. I chose Bolivia because I wanted to see somewhere new ad it seemed like a good choice since it is so close to Brazil and has a similar culture to that of Peru.

We then decided that we would not be going to Brazil which again opened up the opportunity to pick what I did this Summer. For a long time I thought that I would just still go to Bolivia and spend more time than originally planned. I also, however, wanted to return to Peru to visit the orphanage again and touch basis with the friends and family I made here. After a lot of prayer and getting insight from others, I decided to return to Peru. I then started looking at other possibilities in Peru since the orphanage I worked at last year did not seem to be in as much need as some of the other places in Peru and Ayacucho (the city where the orphanage) and I found that there is a Methodist Church in Ayacucho.

I sent an email to them about 4 months ago and they responded and sounded like they were excited, but when I sent them another email 2 weeks ago and then a third week ago...there was no response. So...I have decided to go to Ayacucho and knock on the door of the church, if no one is there then I will go to the orphanage where I worked last Summer and then continue visiting the church until I can find someone to talk to.

I haven't really had too much happen yet to talk about so I'll sign off for now and I'll be sure to update you guy if anything exciting happens.

Thank You so much for all the prayers and support,

Brandon



P.S. You may have noticed that the website for the blog is Luke 10:29 look it up and it should be self explanatory why I chose it.