More Thoughts About Venezuela

Wow, what a month that was! I am sad that I didn't get to write more while I was abroad, but I still want to fill you guys in on what happened. So first of all, an update to my last entry: Kate is doing fine and seems to have recovered almost fully now without any complications from her surgery. After the first day on campus things continued to improve as we met with more and more students. Each day we would walk on campus and within 15 minutes we would be waving to students we had met earlier. It's amazing how friendly and open the people are to talking about spiritual things. As the week went on we got to be pretty good friends with a group of English speakers at the university. As an example, I forgot to mention that on our first day on campus some of the students jumped on the bus with us as left campus. Some of us, including myself, were a little annoyed by it because we thought that they were going to follow us into the hotel and hang out for the evening. But I found out after I got into the hotel that they just wanted to make sure we got back safely! They probably went miles out of their way just to make sure that we would get back safely. Like I said before, you just don't see that kind of kindness in the United States, especially not from strangers. We didn't ask them to help us, they just did. That's all I have to say for now, but there is still more on the way about Venezuela.