Ecuador Update #4

Everything is well here in Quito with my studies and with my host family.I´m glad I have a host family that includes me in everything and makes me feel like part of the family.God definitely matched me up with a wonderful family.

I´m finishing up my 3rd cycle of spanish classes this next week and then I will have vacation time until Feb 18th, almost 2 months.I´m excited for this next semester because I will be taking regular classes here along with the last 2 cycles of spanish.I´m in the 5th level now and I will finish and take a spanish proficiency test after level 7 to receive a certificate.

God has blessed me thus far with a few exchange students who are also Chrsitians, and which have been a huge blessing while here.Two have them have left back to the states and I am praying that God will send a couple more Christian students next semester.Unfortunately most study abroad students are nont followers of Christ.

God has been teaching me many things from the study of His Word lately, and again it has been a tremendous blessing to be a follower of Christ here in Ecuador.There are so many people who reject God with their life and God has been putting a burden for them on my heart.

Please remember to pray for the people of Ecuador, that God will lift the blinders off their eyes so they will see their need for a Saviour.

Please continue to life me up in prayer as I continue to be a light to my host family, the exchange students around me and my teachers.Pray that God will continually give me the strength to trust in Him and not my own ability.Lastly, please pray that as I live my life differently than other students that people will want to know the reason why.

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 40:30-31