Trujillo and Caja Marca - the first week

The first two weeks of my trip were on the road pretty much. I got in late Wednesday night and then we got up early Thursday morning and got in the van to drive about 8 hours to a city called Trujillo. Julianna and I stayed with Julio and his wife. Julio works all week then takes an 8 hour overnight busride to Lima to come to Bible College classes on Saturday and Sunday then rides back Sunday night to his house. We are starting a Bible College in his house where the classes from Lima will be sent. We did a "sketchboard" evangelism in the plaza near his home and many people prayed to receive Jesus into their hearts. We were there one night and then got up early the next morning to drive further north to Caja Marca, this was another 8 hour ride. It was so beautiful. This is a picture from our van ride.
One of the men that came with us is named Arturo. He LOVES taking my camera and taking pictures. I called him my personal photographer. There are tons of pictures of me on my own camera which is funny but its all Arturo. :) We arrived in Caja Marca in the evening. We stayed in a hotel right across from this towns plaza and we had another night of sketchboard and evangelism. The response was incredible from the people. They are very open to God and talking with us. After telling the story on the sketchboard people would stand around and talk about Bible College. We met a few people on Friday and Saturday that came out to eat with us when we would have our "raps" (rap-time of discussion, its a term that our church uses, we dont actually break out into raps... haha). It was a great time there. I had some fried trout which I am not much of a fish eater for those who know me but I loved it! It was so good. We held a small church service in our hotel on Sunday morning with some of the people we met over the weekend and also some of the people that the team had met in the past trips to the city. We drove back to Trujillo, ate some more trout, woke up in the morning and had breakfast and then we were back on the road to Lima. We got in Monday night around 5pm. Monday night is the night that the men have a meeting with Pastor Stan (our church pastor in Lima) and the girls come over to our apartment. Julianna and I had a great time sharing with a few of the girls after making some homemade chicken soup. Tuesday is our day off each week so we all just relaxed and had some time to breathe and get laundry done which I will explain later in another post :) We picked up Pastor Jon Stambovksy after watching the Count of Monti Cristo (a great movie by the way) late Tuesday night. Wednesday night we had church and they asked me to sing for the service so I sang the Kari Jobe "Revelation Song" The service was really amazing. It was total confirmation to me that I am exactly where God wants me. I cant even explain how personal the messages were to me that night. It was unbelievable. This entire time here has been like that. It definitely doesn't do justice to explain my time in a litle blog but hopefully this will give you all a little insite to how everything is going down here. ITS AMAZING!!!!!! I have a lot more to write but it will have to wait for another time.