Friday March 28

We are here in Argentina! We are having a bit of trouble with getting our pictures loaded, but we have some great ones to share with you when we are able to get them up. The town we are in is called Bernardo de Irygoyen. We traveled yesterday for a total of about 33 hours, so we were tired. We arrived here at about 5 in the morning today. We then slept for about 3 hours.

We are loving being with Mark, Aly and Nicole Westlind and also with Alex. There are about 7 people who drove 6 hours to be with us for the week from other churches. We are being treated with SO much love and honor by the locals in the Covenant Churches here.

The town has been described as the ¨"Nebraska" of Argentina. Meaning that this is a super small town and there aren´t many tourists that will come and visit here. We sure do stick out as the big group of visitors in town. I just had 4 kids peering over my shoulder watching me type because I was the new person here in town.

We have eaten more meat in the past 24 hours than we have eaten in the past week combined. Amazing food. They actually even bought a cow for us for our meat for the week. We named him Fred, but Fred is now dead...and is probably dinner tonight.

Most of the boys showered outside in the outside showers today. They had bought matresses for us to sleep on, so we cleared out the chairs at the church and all slept on the mattresses on the ground. About 6 students will be in host homes.

Everyone is feeling good with their health. Chloe is keeping up great and no one else is really struggling. Liam´s stomach is still a little weird, though.

Thank you for praying for us! We have a really fun blog to post that Corey and Fuj wrote yesterday, but again, we are having trouble uploading it. I will try to get pictures up later tonight or tomorrow.

Blessings and love from all of us!