Formosa Flexibility

This month has been quite a month. It started with a road trip to a more northern part of Argentina, Formosa for a regional meeting. On July 9^th I boarded a bus for Formosa and embarked on a 10 hour bus ride all alone. It was my first “Greyhound like” bus trip alone. It was an overnight trip so it went by real fast. When I arrived in Formosa I had to immediately meet up with some team members so I could cross over the river to Paraguay and renew my tourist visa. So my second adventure within 24 hours was to cross over the river into Paraguay with 6 college students who were spending their summer in Argentina. Well, that was an experience I will never forget. It was cold and rainy and the first thing we were asked were why we going over to the other side and of course we said to shop because border shopping is always a must, because almost always things are cheaper right as you enter a country. Well, right away we were warned that because of the Swine flu we could not buy and or bring anything back with us from one border to the next, except for our bodies! It was crazy because we could bring back the virus just as easy without stuff as we could with stuff. Anyway, they said we could pass over and return. However, the process to get my passport stamped was more complicated than we thought it was going to be. However, needless to say 3 boat rides, 4 passport stamps and 3 hours later mission accomplished.

After our short stay in Paraguay we all returned to start our weekend of missionary fellowship. The weekend was great for me because being that I am new to the Argentine Lowland team there were many missionaries I only knew by name. We kicked off the weekend with an early sweet 16 dinner for Elizabeth Cook and ended with all day strategy/policy meeting. Overall, it was a great weekend because it was a time to hear what God was doing all over Argentina and what he is cooking up. As well as I got to return back to Santiago with my favorite/partner missionaries, the Cooks and we were able to stop in one of the small towns where they used to live near and minister and attend a church serve and fellowship after with one of the families. Honestly, God is moving here in Argentina, he is opening doors, please pray for his workers to be diligent to answer the call and start the work.