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Okay so our second night of showing the Jesus film got rained out... Boo hey! But in the same way it was alright because we got to meet the church people and a bunch of people from the community and we are going back there Saturday night so I am excited. We have showed the Jesus film for kids 12 times in the last couple of days in local schools so other than the lack of sleep it was awesome! We woke up this morning to an absolutely beautiful day with a gorgeous blue sky, so we´re praying the rain stays off till at least 11 o clock tonight. Tonight we´re showing in the community we´re staying in so I´m excited to get out and invite the people we´ve been seeing, or have been seeing us every day. Also, 2 of the students I´ve been discipling over the last month are among a group of 6 students that are coming to join us on the film tonight so it´ll be awesome to see them sharing their faith with others. All in all its going to be awesome! Thanks so much for all your prayers, the best things you can do is pray, and pray it doesnt rain!

Luv you! Lins :)

Alrighty... so R&R has ended but it was amazing! We headed out to an extinct volcano and took over an absolutely beautiful hotel which was awesome. Saturday morning we literally climbed a mountain. The tour guide named Mario that took us actually worked on the Survivor Panama crew so apparently he´s pretty famous. But the view was amazing once we finally got there.

Sunday night our team transported back to an area of Panama city and showed our first round of Jesus film showing. I got to share my testimony sunday night at the showing and it was really cool to be a part of that. The kids were adorable and we taught them "duck, duck, goose" although in spanish goose doesn´t translate so it was duck, duck, chicken, "pato, pato, pollo." We´re all being billeted out to families in the area and Laura, one of the Panamanian students and I are staying with an older gentleman named Luis and his mother. They´re a riot and because I don´t speak a tonne of Spanish we´re having fun figuring things out, oh, and the shower has one temperature, cold... but at least it wakes me up in the morning.

There were some problems with the scheduling for our team and we actually don´t have more showings of the film until Thursday night. So yesterday we struggled with feelings of uselessness, but God is good and we´re going to a school to show the Jesus film to students and then to a prayer meeting at night. I am so looking forward to the showings of the film this weekend. Whats really cool is that we have 12 Panamanian students joining us throughout the week. A lot of them our people we saw come to Christ on the campus cycle and they´re now taking the step of faith and coming to share their testimonies and their faith at the shows. So keep praying for us as we push forward until the end. Gods answering prayers though, as Mark (one of our team members) was really sick but now he´s rejoined us, and I was actually able to get some sleep last night, which was such a blessing!

I love you all as always and will see you all so soon!

Time for some R&R! We are a lucky group!!! In about a half an hour, we are all heading to the crater of an extinct volcano for some rest. We have the entire hotel booked just for us and there is horseback riding and hiking and all in all a blast.

Our big going away party was last night and it was awesome just to see how many Panamanians are excited about everything that has happened over the last couple of weeks. We are leaving an awesome group of students here and I am so excited to see whats all going to happen in the next couple of years! Keep praying for us this week as Sunday night begins our Jesus film cycle in the local churches. My team is staying in the Panama city region but its awesome because 10 or so Panamanian students that are joing us for a couple of nights this week!

I love you all and I will see you soon!

Lins