Feeling much better today, back into food - Yippee! We’ve started reading Hebrews together which should be cool. The prayer meeting tonight was at a lady’s house across the street, who we didn’t know, but vaguely recognised, it was a good meeting and Gilberto talked about changing the Merendero at the church to have more spiritual content. We’re going to be looking at a bible story with the kids and one of the others is going to pray at the start each week.

Happy Birthday Laura! Unfortunatley I’m not feeling too good though

It’s Laura’s birthday tomorrow so I’ve been making her a birthday cake. She wanted a bible shaped one, so I did my best - the shape is ok, but I encountered problems with the icing so it didn’t end up with a verse on it! Then in the evening we went to see American Pie - The Wedding, - the cinema was the fullest I’d ever seen it here in Salto.

First Sunday service back in Salto, and it turns out that we’re going to be looking at John’s gospel in the Sunday services -which is cool especially after having looked at it in depth on the camp. The passage was Jesus at the Wedding in Cana, which Gilberto had previously referred to as showing that Mary was needed to start Jesus’ ministry - “If she hadn’t involved him here…”. However the sermon sounded quite good - no particular focus on Mary and no mention of the above - so it’s promising!

Arrived back in Salto today at 7.00 - In some ways, it’s nice to be back - but it’s been a great trip and would be nice to just keep travelling!!

Left the hotel in the morning, fortunately we could leave the bag there, so we didn’t have to carry it round all day. We went to find one of the Christian bookshops, and got some cool books which should help us with the youth group. Then we had lunch at McDonalds - one of there cool salads again, this time to share with 2 chicken breasts - Was lovely. It then looked as if it was going to rain, so we headed back to pick up our bag, as the hotel was a few blocks from the tube.

Arrived at Buenos Aires first thing in the morning, left our luggage and headed straight to the hotel (Best Western Comfort Hotel) to see if we could check in - we could, so we had showers and breakfast as we decided what to do for the day.

We woke up quite early, after not much sleep as the room was very stuffy - decided to get packed up and leave the hostel as soon as possible. We tried to pay in dollars, but they wouldn’t accept it as the note had got a mark on it in pen - so we had to go to the cash machine and get more pesos for them and head back to the hostel before breakfast!

Left Santiago at13.00 - The bus journey was good, but annoyingly they decided to close the curtains and shut out the view in order to watch ‘die another day’ with sound going on and off!! We arrived in Mendoza in the evening and it was raining. Got to the hostel we’d booked, and discovered that our’ double room’ was a converted bathroom with 2 bunk beds in that we had to go across a courtyard to get to!

We met Alf Cooper - pastor of Trinity church in Santiago, who invited us to got to their newest church plant at Cantagallo for the service. What they have lots of different activities at the main church that bring in lots of people and they let it grow till it gets too big(700 is considered a reasonable size). Also alongside there are lots of ways of training up leaders, including theology courses run from the church.