spanish

i've taken spanish for two years now, and am about to start my third year... so i will be in spanish III honors this year. i love spanish. i just think it's such a beautiful language, and that the spanish culture is so interesting. i have a new passion for spanish, though, as i have been sponsoring a girl named milagro, (means miracle in spanish), from Compassion, for over a year now. ever since i first selected her, as my "child", i have been dying to get to meet her. and i still hope to, one day. she lives in el salvador. but as a "incentive" to learn spanish well, i have decided that i will learn enough spanish to be able to communicate with milagro, without a translator, before i will go on a trip to see her. (now, this is... unless god intervenes! gods plan is my plan. i've just tried to set some "goals", after much prayerful consideration. i've always felt his calling to learn spanish, to use in his ministry.) today was kind of funny though. because i received a letter from milagro (she sends me about... one letter a month), and they always translate it for me. but this one, they had forgotten to translate! so for me, i could kind of hear god saying, "here you go... try this out. how is your spanish truly coming?" i got the main ideas of the letter, but still had to use the aid of an online translator. so we have much work to do, in my second language, but we are making progress! (we being jesus and i!) my prayer for milagro has always been philippians 1:9-11, which reads...
"And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God."

it is also my prayer for all of you. that your love may abound in knowledge and insight, and you may be able to discern, so that you may be pure and blameless, filled with righteousness through jesus christ, and you may always bring glory and praise to God. amen.