Guatemala Update

well, i´m sorry that i haven´t updated. nothing too crazy happened the rest of the week at language school and i´ve been away from a computer since thursday.

tyler and shannon arrived safely on thursday night, so that is good. they met me for lunch in antigua with emil (our contact here who we are staying with this weekend) and i was really happy to see people i know. after school on friday emil took the three of us back to his house. we went for dinner at another friend´s house and that was a lot of fun.

today we woke up at 4:30, in the morning that is, in order to go hike an active volcano. the hike was really cool although visibility was about 25 feet for most of the morning due to an extreme ammount of fog. once we got higher and it got later into the morning the fog started to clear and we had a pretty amazing view. we didn´t see any flowing lava but did come across a lot of hot spots and saw a lot of dried up lava. tomorrow we will go to church with emil and head back to antigua where tyler, shannon, and i will be staying in the same house that i stayed at this week.

so i finished my first spanish book and got a 97% on my test, because i hablo mucho español now (sarcasm intended). But my spanish really has come along way in the last week. i went from barely being able to say anything to now being able to converse with people for about 5 minutes. the people speak so fast here so it is hard to understand but i feel like i understand more and more each day.

now that shannon and tyler are here it will be a much different experience. please pray that i continue to grow with the Lord and with culture/language here the way that i have been while i was alone. i´ll write back soon.

-colter