It has been a long time since I have written, and although I would love to update you on everything, the time is still not with me. Right now, urgency is the thing that presses me to write to you at this time. As you will probably remember, I left Buenos Aires to visit some friends in Uruguay, and almost immediately after that I ended up in the North of Argentina, in a city called Corrientes, right on the river that borders with Paraguay. In this city is a local YWAM base (they call it JUCUM over here) where I felt that God had called me to. In this base I started to do the Discipleship Training Course which is a 6mth training school that teaches me the values of YWAM and many life-changing principles from the Bible. Now there has been many many things that have happened during my time here, and I have journalled much of it, so most of it is not lost, but as for writing about it I do not have time just yet. The main thing that I can say right now is that most people keep noting that there have been obvious changes in me. I can see in myself that there has been a huge change in the heaviness that I had previously always felt inside of me. All of my anger and (controlled) desire to act it out has also left me and I feel no level of frustration like that any more. These are the more obvious things that I can tell myself. Most people simply say they can see a difference on my face. Well after something like three months of life-changing teaching, instruction, and modelling, my theory part of the course has come to a close. There is no more to be said... for now we are required to go out and put into practice all that we have learned and use the new tools that we have been practicing with. Half of my class has already started their journey to Peru. My journey with the other half of my class starts tomorrow. We are heading to Bolivia. Bolivia Our goals are different, so I will talk only of Bolivia here. When we get there, we will be living in a number of different locations. Bolivia is a poor country, one of the poorest in South America, and Argentina is seen as one of the richest in comparison. We have no fixed address but instead will be moving in and often living amongst some of the poorest people in the country. In these conditions there are dangers such as Chagis disease (where a parasite can eat your organs out over a period of 20yrs without cure), a skin-burrowing bug, and the usual other bugs such as hepatitis and so on. Our sleeping conditions are unknown, as is the condition of the places we will be entering. There appears to be few telephone lines in the area and some suggest that there may not even be power. Our goal in going to these places is to help the people that are in need. If there is building that needs to be done then we will build. If there are churches around then we will help them in the areas that they are helping the people. Of course it is natural that we will be wanting to share with them some of the hope that we have also, and demonstrating the truth of it through healing and other miracles. Throughout our time in Bolivia it is probably that we will be doing a tremendous amount of walking between places, catering for ourselves with the food that we can find (this should not be too much of a problem), and trying to keep spirits up in a sweltering heat. I too face the difficulty that nobody speaks English on my team, so all communication will be in Spanish. Buenos Aires After one month of working in Bolivia, we are all converging back in Buenos Aires at another YWAM base for a National Meeting on the 3rd of November. During this time of sharing our experiences and catching up with each other (including the team from Peru and the Buenos Aires students) we will be once again separated into two teams. These teams are likely to be somewhat different from our current teams. Then we commence the second part of our outreach - to Argentina. We will be going to Jujuy and San Antonio del Santiago, two different teams to the two different provinces. Here will be much of the same sort of thing as in Bolivia, and for about the same amount of time. We finally return to our base in Corrientes on the 3rd of December. The next ten days sees us sharing our experiences and finishing up our course, which ends on the 13th of December 2004. Your Part If you are a praying person, then I ask that you would please pray for us as a team during this time. If it is possible to communicate with you during this time then I will try to do so, otherwise you will hear from me around the beginning of December. And now... to my adventure. Bolivia, here I come! Rob.