Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Today, after many days of struggle and toil, Joy finished untangling Steph's big ball of yarn so that she could continue on her knitting project...what a great friend :)

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Today we spent our first day in Chaco. It was very hot, very buggy, and we were exhausted. Thankfully, one of Joy's friends had sent us this cool passage from Psalm 121 regarding standing firm and turning to God for help to keep us focused and encouraged during some of our tougher struggles.

Sunday, January 9th, 2011

At 5am this morning we left Córdoba to head to the northern province of Chaco and spend 2.5 weeks doing programming at a camp and working with a local church in the city of Sáenz Peña. Joy, Steph, along with roommates Sharayah and Sarah and teammate Ezequiel, piled into the team car for the 12 hour journey. One of the most exciting parts of the day for Steph was her reunion with the Grido Frutal de Limon - a lemon flavored popsicle from the ice cream chain Grido that have been sold out for weeks in Córdoba! It was a beautiful, blissful moment of reunion, and assurance that the Grido Frutal de Limon do still exist in Argentina.

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Tonight was our last night in Córdoba for almost 3 weeks, so we invited our friends over for a choripaneado and movie night at the house....Pablo cooked us up some delicious chori and we enjoyed the Legend of Ron Burgundy (aka "Anchorman")...and stayed up until 5am when our teammate Ezequiel came to pick us up to leave on the 12 hour car trip up to Chaco!

Friday, January 7th, 2011

This evening we went to celebrate our friend Gime's birthday with a backyard late-night gathering. We saw a lot of our friends from Alpha, met some of Gime's family and friends, and played some adrenaline-filled foosball (which of course, Team Sun Cats dominated....a few times) :)

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Today when Steph came back from her night run and walked into the house she encountered a hip hop class! We've been helping our housemate Heather get things worked out for our friend Jose (with another friend, Celex) to come and take hip hop classes from her, and their first one, which went late into the night, was a great success!

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Today we ran some errands in preparation for our trip to Chaco coming up on Sunday, one of which was to a wool store! Steph figured there's no better time to start knitting again than on long car trips and the trip to Chaco will be about 15 hours or so. Yikes. She is already taking advantage of, or "aprovechando", her new purchase!

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Today was a cool, rainy day...perfect for chocolate! Our house mate, Sharayah, shared some of the Dove Promises from her dark chocolates with Joy that seemed relevant. After reading many a Dove Promise through the years and especially after coming across these two treasures, the question is this: WHO WRITES THESE THINGS?? Hilarious. Sharayah, thank you for sharing the...Joy. It is indeed contagious.

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Happy Birthday, Mariela! Today we took a trip to a recreation club in a town outside the city to celebrate the birthday of our new friend Mariela (the sister of Pablo, who we've known most of our time here). We swam, played volleyball, foosball, ping-pong, and ate delicious choripan. Here's a picture of the siblings, Abel, Mariela and Pablo.

Monday, January 2nd, 2011

Late night on the 1st/Early morning on the 2nd when Joy came back we ate a sandwich dinner out on the patio and enjoyed playing and singing worship with friends until the wee hours of the morning. We've learned that nothing's lacking when you've got friends, food, and a guitar or two :)

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Happy New Year! We spent the first part of New Years Day in different places...Joy still in the hills with Pastor Ariel's family, and Steph at the pool and playing volleyball with friends. We are so thankful for everything we were blessed with in 2010 and so excited for all God will be doing in 2011!