Peru-Day 2 / Richard / May 10

Another Group

Wish you could have been here today for the first day of training in Huancayo. There are about 40 people from a variety of churches. Three people came 8 hours by bus. One person walked two hours. Another person came 5 hours. We studied lessons 1 & 6 in the morning. This afternoon I will have them teach lesson 4 in small groups of 5 people. Each one will teach a part of the lesson.

One Group

Freddie Samanamú

This afternoon we had 7 groups with 5 people in each group who taught a section from lesson 4. There were two groups that ended up with extra people. After they taught, I prepared them to teach a lesson tomorrow. I took the extra people and made another group so tomorrow there are 8 groups with 5 people in each group. They will teach either Lesson 2, 5, 7, 9 or 10 in their group. The last thing that I did was to take them through the honesty chart in lesson 12. I had only about 20 minutes. We had a good discussion from the chart. Tomorrow should be interesting. There are twoe leaders overseeing the training with Freddie as the director of SETE (Gabe's group in Huancayo). I will have them help me observe each lesson being taught and make suggestions to the participants after each lesson. We are in a large room so it is easy to talk to everybody for 10-15 minutes after each lesson. It's been a long day - 13 hours, but very enjoyable.

I still have a headache from the high altitude in Huancayo. Ellen asked me via Skype if I had attitude sickness instead of altitude sickness! My hotel room has a widow that faces one of the main streets in this city of 600,000 people. The taxis go all night long. They also talk to each other constantly by tooting their horns to let people know that they are available or that they are approaching a corner or someone better get out of the way! They honk the horn all night long. Thankfully I have earphones that have a noise reduction feature so I had them on all night long last night to reduce the racket outside my window. I will use them again tonight.

Pray for the participants tomorrow as they teach their lessons. Pray that I will be able to sleep well in spite of noise outside. I praise God that my C-Pap (Sleep) machine works in Huancayo at 11,000 feet. When I was here in 2005 I had an older machine that did not work here.