I have a WALE of a tale!

I can't believe that i have only been in Wales for four days! We have already done SO much, and we haven't even officially started classes yet. Thanks to all who prayed for safe travels, Michelle and i made it safe and sound. However, we did run into a few problems, our flight from San Fran was an hour late, and our flight from Calgary was 3 hours late which means we landed over 4 hours later than we had expected. Then, (after waiting an hour for our luggage to come) we realized it wasnt coming so we asked and found out the couldnt even find it with the tracker.  They said they would send it to us in the next few days when they find it.  Somehow we met up with Joe in London Heathrow and took a 4 hour bus right to our new home for the next 3 months. SO EXCITING.

The next few days they set aside for us to re-coop, and get acquainted with Llanelli.  Four ex-gappers were here all of last week showing us how things are run, showing us around the town, and just sharing in community and fellowship with us. The people here are SO great. i love the fact that i cant be in a conversation with a person from the states, England, Wales, and Ireland at the same time. We find delight in making fun of each other's accents and weird word usages.

Cultural Differences Update:
-Cars drive on left
-Dont use napkins
-No salad dressing (possibly olive oil)
-"Pants" are not what you think they are... (underwear)
-To say "i like faggots" does not mean you are in support of the homosexual movement. But rather that you love a very Welsh dish made up of pig live and entrails. (tastes like gross meatloaf...kinda)
-Spotted Dick=delicious cake desert that one eats with tea (yes we ate spotted dick)
-Who knew? Welsh people love American accents, but English hate us... big surprise.

Tomorrow is the first Sunday we are here, and Monday will be our first REAL day of training. Sooo exciting.

PRAY: (dont forget about your prayer commitments to pray!)
-Discipline to be in the word on my OWN despite all the time we will be in fellowship with other christians. That one on one time is vital for me and i havent been prioritizing correctly yet.
-Open heart. to what ever HE will have me learn this week!