Hola Senors, Senoras, and Senoritas!!!
This is Michelle Stoyko speaking to you from Bogota Colombia!
sorry it has taken us so long to update this blog, but we have found ourselves rather busy down here in South America with not much time to do so!...well last weekend we were at a youth camp, participating and having fun with some young people about an hour outside of Bogota. It was very beautiful, quite humid, sometimes rainy, but always warm! Definitely experiencing shorts weather in January. On the Saturday we went exploring through the jungle, climbing up a river, over boulders and jumping off cliffs! (Dont worry Mr and Mrs Skretting and Mr and Mrs Letcher, Kyle and Matthews fear of heights prevented them from doing such brave and dangerous activites like jumping off cliffs, but Anna and I took one for the team and plunged right into that raging river! Too bad we dont really have any photographic evidence to prove it, i guess youll just have to take my word for it) anyways, Anna exclaimed many times that it was the best day of her life!! it was definitely one of the most adventurous and exciting days in my life. We shared our testimonies with the people at the youth camp that night, and it was definitely a challenge with a translator, but i think they went pretty well. The Colombians offered their thanks to us by giving us genuine Colombian Sachels!
This week we{re had at work back at Castillo Fuerte, helping run a VBS from 2 to 5 and doing home visits in the morning from 11 to 12. Our new favorite restaurant is Crepes and Waffles where we can get delicious ice cream! For being in Colombia I have had a surprisingly small amount of coffee while here...about 2 cups actually, i found that odd...and I finally gave in and bought a razor, so now i have very smooth legs that are ready for shorts!!! well this is our last day at Castillo Fuerte VBS, and then next week we will be in a neighborhood called Soacha to do VBS and construct some furniture for elderly citizens. anyways...thank you for all of your prayers and we will talk to you soon!!!
We love you and miss everyone back in Canada..(i even kind of miss the snow..weird!)