First let me apologize for not blogging this past month. So much has happened, and then I get overwhelmed writing in my journal AND on here, so.. fail. Forgive me. Trips to Inca ruins, to waterfalls, to Baños, to the rainforest, conversations with my sisters, drivers ed classes with Lili, laughs with my papi, first time ever in a discotec, walking in the pouring rain with a huge Amazon leaf as an umbrella- all of that I will have to tell you in person when I get home.
It's raining outside... and guess what. Last night there was a huge beetle-like bug in my room. And I called in my brother to kill it... oh Ecuador. :)
I have 17 days left in Cuenca, and many thoughts are beginning to come with the pending departure. For one, I'm getting tired of not having any kind of fixed job or schedule- I'm truly on vacation here. No more English classes. No homework. No gym membership. No car to get places. Back to a place of dependence. Those things are tough. But I try to make the most of my free moments in the house, and looking forward to being in the Word more these last few days. Talking to my Dad and Jared the other day made me miss them a lot, and long for the familiar things that I've been lacking. However, I think of leaving my family here, and the Ortiz family (cousins and all) and my heart hurts. So so much. And I think about returning to my full full life back home, with all of its responsibilities, and that too makes me cringe. But I have to continue to grow up, move on, and advance in my studies and career and faith... just as I have grown in different ways being here this summer. More on that later.
I think I'll post one more time before I go... or at least I will try. Keep me in your prayers- I'm feeling spiritually dry and weak and lacking motivation to seek the Lord. But yet He is near. Pray also that I would not think about leaving, but concentrate on the present and on blessing everyone around me.
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