4 more days!

4 more days of school is all we lack! You haven´t misread any of our previous posts. We had indeed planned on staying for 2 more weeks, however, we have decided to change our plans a bit. This Friday we will not attend school so that we can attend a conference with other missionaries. Both of us have been taught all of the spanish grammar, and at this point another week of school wouldn´t be that advantageous. By no means does that mean we are speaking great spanish, we speak decently, and using it more will help to better it. Thanks for praying for us as we´ve journied through language school. We´d ask you to pray for our last week of school and for us as we begin living at the children´s home.

Living in a different culture has provided many funny situations for us. The most recent of which was when we took Harvey, Lee´s current teacher and Staci´s former teacher out to lunch as a way of saying thanks for his help with our language skills. The food arrived to the table, and Harvey asked Lee if he´d like to pray. Lee begins the prayer by saying ¨Dios gracias para este dia¨ As soon as Lee said that Harvey interjects and says ¨por¨ meaning Lee should have said ¨Dios gracias por este dia¨ Harvey...always a teacher had to make sure that Lee´s prayer was gramatically perfect. For those of you who don´t know spanish both ¨por¨and ¨para¨translate to ¨for¨. There are specific reasons and situations for using one or the other. I don´t think either of us with misuse ¨por¨ in this situation again.