Five cups of coca tea later, and no altitude sickness yet!

Well as you know I am no blogger, if you tried to follow my Scotland blog (ahem)... :) But being alone in a non-English speaking country, this will be my English respite as well as a motivation to record what God is showing me here. Because frankly I don't really know what I'm doing and I know I will be veeeery stretched and very in need of his daily provision. So dear friends, here's to my hopefully consistent and definitely short and sweet blog! Hurrah.

And this is La Paz!! Golllyyyy, my jaw was dropped the whole ride back from the airport. And the entire trip from Lima to La Paz. Here's a snapshot out the window of the plane: the Andes are GLORIOUS. Sure puts Sugarloaf into perspective.

I begin work on Monday at World Vision. I really do NOT know what to expect. But I do know God opened many doors for me to come here, and even though I've been a stupid gringa for the past two days and I can't foresee myself being a service to anyone anywhere here, God has some reason... even if it's just to show me the work he is doing among the nations and to increase my dependence on him and my open-handedness to his plan. I finally finished Isaiah this week and was encouraged as I set off with this--"But now, O LORD, YOU are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand." -Is 64:8. I'm prayin that he uses this time to mold my character, skills and vision for my future career and life. Please pray for that!! My goal for these two months, though my present skills and Spanish render me seemingly useless, is that the Lord creates a humble tool out of this clay for his purpose. "I long to be kept by God in an attitude of willing surrender so that he can go on to perfect that which concerns me; so that he can go on stripping and whittling and sandpapering until he is content with the new arrow he is creating." - Helen Roseveare

More on Bolivian life and culture later. May I just say their diet is stellar. Good thing this is the highest capital in the world and I will hopefully get some intense exercise. Oh and Peru!! I got to spend a surprise 30-hr-all-expenses-paid visit to Lima. A cancelled flight turned into a gift. Yes.