Arriving Cochabamba and Spiritual Life Conference

Yesterday we took the Aerosur flight on 10:45am to Cochabamba and we landed at the airport. Lawrence, Liling and two girls came to the airport to greet us and took us to the school.

First Surprise
However, after we loaded everything onto the Tans 4-wheel drive and we got into the van, the van was broken down and could not be started. The jump start cable did not help to start the van. We have to took out the battery from the 4-wheel drive into the van to start the van and then put the battery back into the Tans car. This took good 45 minutes. But we finally arrive the conference.

Cochabamba
The weather at Cochabamba is fine. The day time temperature is max 26 degree C and - 1 degree at night. The atmosphere here is dusty and smelly at times. The sewerage system is not very good here and the smell come from public toilets and OMOS wahsing power factory from time to time. There are many gum trees and Australian natures planted here. It is very dry and without rain. There are many half finished housing in Bolivia. The building development and economic have been affected by the global recession.

The Spiritual Life Conference
We are now staying in the Carachipampa Christian School CCS, where the annual Spiritual Life Conference is held and SIM missionaries from all over Bolivia gather together.

Our main task here is to take care of the kids and youth program. There was 12 high schools 12 primary school kids. We have conducted morning worship singing songs 10 minutes, two bible lessons of total 3 hours, ball games of 3 hours and 2 hours of practicing play with the primary kids.

There are 16 families and 14 single missionaries attending the SIM annual conference. "Spirituality in the times of crisis" is the theme this year. The food is good and not too much. Most of the SIM missionaries are English speaking and come from different countries, but mostly from USA.

Getting Use to...
Please pray for our health. As the altitude at the school is over 2500m and we start to feel tire very easy with the altitude sickness. We all took the medicine. We did not sleep very last night.