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Please pray for me. Today has been super frustrating, and to be quite real, I think it is safe to say that I´ll have more days like this while in Spain. This morning I cleaned a visitor´s apartment with two other women while a group of men did interior restoration. We were all crammed in a little space (at times with as many as like 15 people in the space), trying to get much work done, and (later I found out) were on a strict time limit of having everything done by 3 pm. There was so much miscommunication because of different cultures having different ways of doing things. Others thought I didn´t understand Spanish though I did which translated into my jobs constantly being taken away. And, there was a lack of tolerance and respect (again because of miscommunication and cultural differences). I broke down and cried several times this morning which didn´t add to the situations positively. It is what it is though.

In addition to the above, things with my visa to the UK have been up in the air until moments ago. For various reasons, there was miscommunication about me coming here to Spain and how long I´d be here which translated into problems with timing for my visa for the next part of the journey. It´s all a long story. At times this morning, it looked like I may even be going to Barcelona instead of Valencia. There is now clarity about all that. I leave for Valencia on Sunday, and regarding the UK, I will only be staying three months rather than a possible six months. Perhaps at some point I´ll get to return to Europe as my heart now desires that (though currently outside of Betel).

Thank you for your prayers! You have no idea how much they mean to me whether you let me know you´re praying or not for me. I need them and truly appreciate them. May God grant me much more peace in this very humbling, hard-working journey among deeply broken women. May His face shine upon me as I serve faithfully with love in Spain and elsewhere. Adios for now.