This last week I got the chance to translate for a missions trip from my own hometown. The teenagers did 4 concerts in 3 cities in about a week. I got a chance to see someone pass from death to life through the love of Jesus Christ. It was awesome to see kids excited about sharing God's Word with others.

Dear Florida,
I miss you, ALOT! I'll see you soon.
love,
Natalie

Today is officially the first day of winter in the Southern Hemisphere......it really stinks. We celebrated by having ice cream and watching "The Boy in the Striped PJs", then I took a nice long nap. Needless to say it was really COLD!

Happy Father's Day!

I have caught it....the Mundial(World Cup)fever. It's exciting. I can't wait to see America play again. All the Americans gathered in the dining hall to watch the game together. We all painted our faces and screamed for our team. OUR TEAM, AMERICA! I love gringos, i love soccer and most of all i LOVE being an American.

Funny story, okay here it goes....

Niki, Danielle, and I (3 gringas) rode to the neighborhood that we work in, on the ministry bus. We thought that one of the boys would meet us at the bus stop, but he wasn't there. So as we are exiting the bus, the bus driver tell us to get 2 bags of meat for our ministry. So we go get the meat and start our walk. Danielle is holding one and I am holding the other. Like we don't look odd enough walking through this Argentine neighborhood, i mean you don't just see 3 gringas walking by themselves through a neighborhood like La Foresta everyday. So we are fine, just walking along, past the hair shop almost past the park and then.....the bag of meat breaks. The meat plops on the ground. So I run back and pick it up( i have been in Argentina waaaay too long, 8 months ago i would have never picked raw meat up off the sidewalk). So now we are 3 gringas walking with raw meat in our hands to the church. No worries though, we stopped at the fire station and washed it off and picked the pebbles out.

The world has stopped for this.