Dad, Steve, and I just found out tonight that we have been accepted to go on a medical missions trip to Lima, Peru with a local church group. We are so excited! Lord willing, we will be traveling in February. With the missions trip experience we had in Mexico last year, I am looking forward to what God has in store for this trip.
Now that this has come up, I am really glad that we did our Unit study about Simón Bolívar and the independence of South America. Funny as it is, we seem to skip over these type of events to go on to more pivotal occurrences in history only to end up regretting it later. Last year, we skipped studying the gore of the Mayans and later found ourselves in the Yucatán Peninsula ministering to people who were Mayan and spoke the Mayan language. Even before that we zoomed past the material covering ancient China and then traveled there to adopt a little Chinese girl not too long after. All that to say I am glad we did our homework on this one! For once I may get to lecture my history-buff-of-a-brother on the history of Peru while in Peru!
