Yesterday Amy and I met our host family for these next 4 months. Our mom is a pastor and our father is a bus driver. They were instantly welcoming and protective of us. I told my mom about my peanut allergy and she assured me that if we see peanuts we will "run, run, run away as fast as we can!" I can already tell they have such loving hearts. The Spanish barrier was hard to get past, but I know that we will learn so much in our time with them. I'm actually remembering a lot more than i thought I would. I'm excited to finally have a place in a real familia Dominicana. We've been living at the base which feels like camp. It'll be a sigh of relief to finally be moved home. This is home. That's going to be the hardest thing to get used to. So many times already I've thought our experience was near over and in a few days we'll be back on a plane for the states for our life at Bethel to begin again. But it won't happen.
Este es mi hogar ahora.
La Republica Dominicana es mi hogar ahora.
Glad to hear you have arrived at your new "home away from home". I'd love to hear about the food and the lifestyle differences. You are living a lifetime memory! Mom
ReplyDeleteTotos son normales hasta que los conoces (as Ortberg put it). Our idea of normal is somewhat skewed. As Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:17, "He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit." In chapter 4:4: "There is one body and one Spirit-just as you were called to one hope when you were called-one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all." Although you are in a foreign place, the same God bonds us all together! MOM
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