una semana

It is crazy to think that I have already been here almost a week, but at the same time it isn´t because I already feel like Tlaxiaco is home. My host family is so incredible at making me feel welcome and like a part of their family... even when I only understand half of what they are saying.

LAMP (if you remember, is the language learning method that GFM has adopted where we basically try to talk to as many people as possible) is incredibly stretching at times, but the relationships that are starting to be formed have been incredible. A few days ago I was walking through a new part of Tlaxiaco that I hadn´t been to, and I heard a guy trying to get my attention. At first I was just going to keep walking, because there are lots of guys who try to get gringa girls´ attention here and for the wrong reasons, but I realized that I recognized the guy. It was Victor, the uncle of my host dad, Carlos. I ended up talking with his wife Margarita and his oldest daughter Paula for over 2 hours about so many different things. I am thankful for friendships like those.

I had more to write, but I have to go. More will come later... along with pictures hopefully, but the pictures will probably be a while. We´re not allowed cameras for the first 2 weeks because Chris and the other leaders of GFM said, ¨you´re not here to be tourists¨... which is true, but eventually I will be sure and post pictures!

To God be the glory,
Elizabeth