Sunday Funday

Sleep was elusive last night.

I got a few solid hours in, but after tossing and turning ever since around 4am, I finally gave up trying to get back to sleep and spent some time praying/writing this! :)

I'm officially moved in to my host family's home, where I will be living for the remainder of my time in Dallas.  They are so kind and generous, and I feel very comfortable and at-home here already!
Each intern on my team is staying with separate host families, so I think we will all have plenty of experiences and stories to share with each other during team meetings!

When I first arrived to my host family's house, my host-mom invited me along with her to a new Asian market to do some grocery shopping. I was so excited to go experience that and find out how an Asian market in America works! I tried new fruit I had never tried before, got some aquarium water splashed on me when I walked by the lobster tanks, was given a beautiful cake by my host-mom, and picked up a few new vocabulary words! :)

After going to the market, I met up with the rest of the interns at the church we are all attending to help prepare a special meal for all the fathers at the church. It was definitely a really interesting experience to help prepare a meal with ingredients I could barely pronounce!! I'm a long way from becoming an experienced Asian chef, but I feel like I took my first step in that direction yesterday hahaha

That evening, I also attended a bible study with an Asian fellowship from the University of Texas at Dallas. Everyone was so kind and welcoming! I met some awesome new Jesus-loving friends who I'm really excited to continue to connect with over the next couple of weeks as we keep attending the bible study.

Today is going to be primarily a day of resting and getting geared up for this next week! I will attend church with my host family and spend the day tagging along with them. 

I'm really excited to jump into this next week and continue working on the bilingual songbook, help with the research project on minority people groups, and soak in as much language-learning as possible!

Prayer needs:

-Safety/provision for all the teams that are currently traveling overseas

-Spiritual health and discipline during our time of preparation

-Protection against distractions (I have a couple factors/circumstances in my life which could make keeping my focus here a little more difficult. Please pray that God will heal my heart where it needs healing, and that I would be strengthened by the Holy Spirit to be fully engaged in the task at hand!)