Journal entries from Bolivia - May 31

So I was pretty terrible at keeping up with journaling/blogging while in Bolivia, but looking back in the journal entries I wrote there, I decided to post some of them up here (better late than never right?). There were some great ways God moved and good memories, and I figured I would share :) I didn't intend when I wrote them for people to read them, so bear with me a bit as some of them are prayers and not written the best. Nonetheless - here is a very very late update about what my time in Bolivia was like:

May 31, Saturday.

This morning we had breakfast and then found our way to Parque Pairumani to do some hiking. It was really pretty! I think the altitude here is pretty high, so I am pretty tired after that. We took a couple of trufis (vans) there, and it only cost 2.5 bolivianos to get in, which is like 50 cents. There is a river/irrigation type of thing you can follow all the way up. We passed by some of the boys from an orphanage that the HOH people had visited recently, and they led us up a greener ravine a ways. It was pretty! Nothing like Chile yet, but still cool :) Let's see, what have I learned so far? Cochabamba means plains of puddles (cocha is Quechua is puddle) and bamba --> pampa --> Spanish word for plains. There is about a 50% indigenous population here, mostly Quechua people, also Aymara, then Guarani. $1 USD = 6.9 BOB currently. We are currently staying at Pati and Juana's house in Cotapachi, which is like a suburb of Cochabamba. 

   Today we are going to was homeless kids in the square, and then apparently go to a fiesta. Jesus, meet my heart in this place. Guard us from making this a vacation time and nothing more. I believe that I am here for a reason, so I pray that You would give me the heart to respond to you and be willing to serve and call out the gifts of those around me. I pray that we would not be idle here, but that You would give my team the desire to pray, and guard us from being divided about pointless things.