The stars are big and bright...

DEEP IN THE HEART OF PERU!!! And they are! The stars are so beautiful here! What's up with the no comments everyone?!?! Are you guys even reading this!?! Today we did some more missionary training, we went out and got some candy from one of the stores near by but we haven't gotten to get out a whole lot yet. I am so excited to go to Conima on Thursday and start our ministry. Yesterday at the market Justin Bieber was playing on someone's radio...I wish that I was joking! I don't really miss home at all but I mean I haven't been gone long. I honesty can see myself living overseas for most of my life. I really enjoy this simple living and simple church. I have a lot to say about simple church but I will talk more about that later. I'm praying for everyone back at home, I really want you all to feel this deep fire inside of you that I feel. It's not enough just to proclaim that you are a christian, if your life doesn't show true worship and love for others then what are you doing? Wow, you proclaim to be a christian just like the rest of America...lets see some change in your life! Get out and do something, show someone love! Yeahhh! I don't know about you all but I want to live a life worth following. I'm tired and ready for bed even though its only 9:00 p:m here. I've been a busy bee! Keep praying everyone, God's going to move so much this summer!
-Love in Christ

Bread....no pan!

Hello everyone! I am feeling much better after getting ten hours of sleep last night. I know, I know...ridiculous. I lied to y'all earlier, I'm sorry! We are actually in Huacane right now with the Grady's. We will be here until Thursday and then Thursday evening we will be going to Conima. We will be doing missionary training until Thursday and we even get to hike up a mountain. HOORAY! I hope all my friends from back home have been keeping up with my blog, I mean it has only been three days. HA. So yesterday I had chicken foot soup, oh yeah...you heard me right. I had two chicken feet in it but I just scooped them out and put them aside. The soup was actually muy bueno! Today we had worship at 8:30 a.m. and then we went to the market place. I loved the market place!!! I swear that I ran into like twenty people but you just say "Oh per miso". I don't know if that was the right spelling for that word. I went to a little store and asked for bread and Fernando (the man at the store) laughed and said its pan not bread! We got a ton of stares at the market place, I just kept saying "Hola!" We went to a restaurant today for lunch and it was pretty good! I had french fries with cooked onions and some interesting sauce and then rice. There's like a million different kinds of potatoes here. Also, we are 12,800 feet up...talk about being short of breath! Ha, but seriously I really have been. Its soooo cold here at night and in the morning. You can go on top of the building here and look over the whole city so that's pretty cool. I am getting a little nervous about climbing up that mountain on Thursday! Well its 7:40 p.m and I need to read my Bible and some information that the Grady's gave us so I'm off! I will try to update this tomorrow. I found out that we won't have very fast internet connection in Conima so we'll see how much I get to update this. Adios amigos!

Hello Lima, Peru

I'm in Lima right now hanging out in the airport. Sheesh, I'm so tired! We left from dfw in Dallas at six thirty p.m. We arrived in Mexico city around eight thirty p.m. and hung out there for awhile, then we left from Mexico city and were on the plane for about six hours and now I am in Lima! It is eight in the morning right now. We leave here at eleven thirty p.m to go to Juliaca, Peru. We will then take a bus ride up the Andes mountain to Conima. We should be in Conima around four p.m. tomorrow. I feel like this is all running together, I am just so tired and this keyboard is confusing me. Everything is in Spanish, which I guess is expected. I am so ready to be in Conima and in a bed! I am so excited to see what God is going to do this Summer in Peru and around the world!! Well, I am going to go curl up in a ball somewhere and try to get some shut eye. I promise these posts will be more interesting once I get some rest. Also, I am praying for all my friends who are leaving for Super Summer today! I plan to go Indiana Jones on Peru!
Love in Christ!

Peru, Peru...on my minddd!

Seriously, I leave for Peru on Friday. That is so sooooon! I am nervous and excited and about to explode with emotions! I bought some sweet stuff on sierratradingpost.com yesterday for my Peru trip. Favorite new website! The founder of the company is this awesome Christian dude and there are bible verses on the website and when you click a bible verse it tells you his story. Its pretty awesome and inspiring to see someone share their faith through their business. God is so great! Lately he's been showing me more and more how small I am in comparison, not in a bad way more like "HEY! I got this under conrol Alison...nothing is too great for me". I mean I've been worring about money and having enough time to do everything when I know that my God raised from the dead in three days, changed water to wine, etc. Sometimes I just have to literally laugh at myself about the stupid things I worry about. When I worry and stress out, I am basically saying that I don't trust God. I imagine God just being like, "Chill out, if I can raise from the dead in three days then I can handle all your little problems". And its true!!!! He can!!! I don't know whether or not to put the period before or after the quotation marks and its a little embarassing, I also don't know how to turn on spell check so I'm just stuck in a boat without a paddle. I decided that I'm going to start using funny saying more because well I like them. So butter my butt and call me a biscuit, I'm going to church on the island and then to the beach so I'll see you folks later!
-Love in Christ!