We found Catholic Teens!

Last night, we decided to meet up and go to see the movie Invictus that was advertised online as being free at a theater near the old part of the city. When we got there, it turned out to be a fundraiser for Catholic teens from Caceres to go to the World Youth Day in Madrid, which will be held in August. Since it was a fundraiser, it was unfortuately not free and the group decided not to go since a lot of us didn't bring money. We told them how much we wanted to go to World Youth Day but we just don't have the money to make it possible. They suggested selling cookies....I can only imagine how many thousand cookies I'd have to sell to get enough for the plane ticket. How nice it would be to only have to go 4 hours to Madrid to get there. However, we did get a chance to talk to some of the people there and apparently they have a Mass that they all go to on Sunday night at 8pm and they have a couple Bible studies and other activities that they do together. I gave one girl my contact info so I really hope they invite us to join them for some of their activities! It was very exciting to finally find some Spanish people our age who actually go to church! We have been looking for them ever since we got here!

Today I had all four of my classes and my professor prepared us for our trip to Granada and Cordoba this weekend. All 19 of us will be going as well as our professor and program director. We will visit La Alhambra, which is a palace in Granada, and La Mezquita, which is a really old mosque in Cordoba. It should be a very fun weekend!

Going back to my computer problem, I am so incredibly thankful that everything worked out! When I emailed my mom about what happened, she told me that she knew that God had a reason and a lesson for me that would come out of this and as hard as it was for me to hear that, I definitely can see it now. No matter if I am halfway across the world from my closest friends and family, God is still here with me. I also feel like I was being reminded that although I want to be independent and do things for myself, there are times when I need other people's help and God puts everyone in my life for a reason. I can definitely see God working in my life here which is so good!

It has been so good catching up on skyping with friends and family! I will continue to do that tonight as well as work on planning more of an itinerary for my dad and brother when they get to Spain. They will be here in 10 days! I am SOOOO excited to see them!!!