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Hola!

Wow! I can't believe tomorrow is our last day on campus. These past 51/2 weeks have gone by so fast. This week has been so busy with appointments and just trying to hang out with our Argentine friends as much as we can before we leave. Monday here in Argentina was Flag Day so the students had the day off. On our day off we had a service project which was to clean the Sede. The Sede is where the stinters live and where all of the Vida meetings take place. We organized, cleaned, and fixed lights, doors, etc. Monday afternoon we had our usual English club and it was pretty laid back because not that many people came due to the holiday. Monday night we had an outreach at the Sede where we could invite two of our closest contacts and give them a chance to meet the Vida leaders and students so that when we leave they will know somebody within Vida. It was a fun time--we played games, cooked pizzas, and just hung out! Tuesday Dylan and I had an appointment with a girl named Agustina that we have been meeting with who is an athiest. The conversation never got spiritual, but we are going to encourage the stinters to keep meeting with her because we believe she is lonely due to the way she is always so excited to hang out with us. After meeting with her, three of us girls and a stinter went and met up with 4 of our Argentine friends to watch the Argentina/Greece soccer game. We went to a well known bar here in La Plata where MANY people get together to watch the games on a big screen. It was absolutely crazy just to see how passionate these people are about "futbol." We later had Bible study and then for women's night we went to a nice restaurant and had dinner. Yesterday I met with a guy named Juan who accepted Christ sometime last week just to follow-up with him and to do soularium with him (a picture survey). I pray that he will continue to attend Vida and get into a Bible study so that his walk with the Lord will grow! After that meeting I went to campus for a couple of hours then headed back to the hotel. Around 6 Britt and I went to Yanina and Iari's apartment to have merianda with them. When we walked in they threw the La Plata daily newspaper in our hands and there we were, a picture of us watching the Argentina game in the newspaper! How crazy is that? We left there around 9 and came back to the hotel to just relax on our free night. Today we had prayer and then headed to campus. Britt and I got into a 2 hour conversation with a guy who is very confused about what he believes. We discussed everything I felt like. We did soularium with him, shared part of the four laws with him, talked about religion and science, and I could go on. Hopefully he will come to english club tomorrow night so we can talk to him some more. Tonight at 11:20 we are going as a project to watch Toy Story 3 in 3D, so we are all pretty pumped about that! SO, tomorrow is our last day on campus and we are all having mixed feelings about it. We are going to miss the people we have met here so much, but we all know God will continue to work in there lives and will use the stinters to help them grow in their walks by doing discipleship! Tomorrow is going to be a hard day because the Vida students are throwing a Despidida (good-bye party) for us. The Vida leaders, students, and even our contacts will be there to say our last good-byes so be saying a little prayer for us as we do that. I will probably not be writing on the blog again because we are leaving on Saturday and heading to Mar Del Plata (the coast). We will be flying out of Buenos Aires Tuesday night at 11pm and will be in Raleigh Durham at 12:15pm on Wednesday. Please pray for our last day on campus that we would continue to pursue people even though it is our last day and that we will trust that God can still work in and through us. Also pray that our contacts will get connected with Vida students so that after we leave they will continue to grow in their walks with Christ and that they will be surrounded with believers. And lastly pray for us as a project community and for our safety as we return home! Thanks for all the prayers this summer and for being interested in what God has been doing here in La Plata, Argentina!

Love,
Alli