My new home

So I have come to the realization that I'm not a born blogger. Everytime I think about sitting down and typing out in detail what I have been doing I cringe. But alas, I am going to break down the overwhelming wall that is blogging and write a post!

I'm sitting here in my room with my 2 roommates, Lesia, 15, who lives here and her friend Alysha, 18, from Canada. Living here in the house we also have Lesia's parents, her older brother Wally, 19, and Ditte, a pioneer sister from Denmark. I am having such a fantastic time with all of my new friends and I already feel right at home here.

We usually start service at 7:30 am and do street work right around the house. We just walk around for a while, maybe grab some coffee and just talk to anyone with whom we come in contact! It is so fun and an enjoyable way to start service for the day. After that we come back to the house and then head out for the meeting for service which starts at 8:30. We'll go out until 12 or so and most of the morning is spent walking. My first house that I did was very scary because the beginning of our presentation is in Spanish, telling the householder that we are looking for people who speak English. And it didn't help that there were 2 people outside the house speaking to each other...in Spanish. I mean, that is nerve-racking in your own language!! Neither of them spoke English, but it gave me the confidence to do more doors. I have only spoke with one person who knew English and he wasn't interested, but I'm sure there will be more :)

Our school and service meeting is Friday nights at 7:45. We have a Spanish meeting before us and that's why it is so late. The congregation has around 60 publishers and between 25 and 30 pioneers. Amazing!! This past Friday we had 89 at the meeting, due to all of the visitors. It is so interesting to always have new people at every meeting, from ALL over the world. We have our Sunday meeting at 3, so I will be doing that a little later today. And then this evening, we are going to someone's house for dinner and to hang out and watch The Sound of Music...that should be fun. Yesterday a couple in the hall had a ton of people over to play beach volleyball. It was such a gorgeous spot right on the ocean. We had burgers and hotdogs and rounded out the evening with playing guitar/singing and Rockband. I also had real Flan! Very delicious :D