Pablo and other answered prayers!

Thursday night and Friday morning were filled with God's reminders of our purpose here. We have not have hot water at our apartment since we got to Salamanca so we've been coming to the campus house to shower. Late Thursday night, around midnight, after Bird and I both showered, a guy named Pablo came by the 'en Vivo' house. He was looking for Jesse but stayed for an hour and a half talking about everything under the sun. He spoke wonderful english so Bird and I were both able to share our faith in Christ with him and tried to answer many of his wonderful questions. His biggest issue, if you would be willing to pray for Pablo is that he cannot image a good God sending anyone to hell. He has a lot of Buddhist thoughts rolling around in head and feels that God is a giant teddy bear who has no other characteristics rather than mushy gushy sentimentalism. We had a great talk with Pablo and he promised to come to our Bible Study which begins next Wednesday. Thank you God for sending us a person to remind us that not one moment of our time in Spain is wasted.

God also answered a prayer of ours for language school. Originally our plan from the beginning was to take Spanish at the University while we are here. This was going to serve a dual purpose in us getting a great opportunity to study Spanish but also to meet other international students to invite them to our Bible Study. However, we did not raise quite enough to take the course at the university but through God's provision we have enrolled in an alternative course, not connected to the school and therefore half the price. WE START CLASS ON MONDAY!! And we could not be more excited. Please pray for opportunities to meet people and to share our faith with them. Praise be to God!!

Beautiful Doors, Beautiful Girl

One of the many jewels in Salamanca, aside from the most beautiful pregnant girl in the world, are the public libraries. This is a picture of Bird at one of the many in town. Since the only thing keeping this town on the map is the university, libraries are very common. We are looking forward to spending a lot of our study time in these beautiful buildings. Today was a work day for Jesse, Sophie, Bird and I. We spent all morning cleaning out the "ev vivo" house...more to come on "en vivo" in the future. We are getting the house ready for a Bible study we are going to host starting next week and also we are cleaning for an evangelistic campaign that is coming on Monday. There are about 50 students from all over the globe coming to Salamanca next week to do drama, hold concerts, evangelize and much much more. They will be using our space to do a few of their outreaches. Some great news for us is that we are hoping to sign up for language classes tomorrow and to start on Monday. This is a huge bonus for us because when it came down to the wire we weren't sure if we would be able to afford them...Jesse has found a much cheaper school in the city and we are going to begin classes Monday...YEAH!!! My Spanish is dismal! Please continue to pray for those students who will come to our Bible study. It will begin next week and we are praying and putting up flyers over the city the next several days. Pray that God would put it on their hearts that while they are away from home they should do their best to stay connected to him. Thanks for all your prayer and love.

"Los calles de Salamanca"

The streets of Salamanca are quite amazing filled with romantic architecture. There is even a working bridge that was built by the Romans 2000 years ago. We walked the entire city by foot yesterday so that "locations" will not be inhibiting in any form. This was a fun opportunity to test more of my Spanish skills out, I'm great at asking questions.....and terrible at understanding the responses as they are quick with their native tongues.
We love all the comments we have recieved, you guys have made us feeled loved, encouraged, and thought about on a daily basis. This is something that is easily taken advantage of in the states, but when you are so far from home every ounce goes a mile. This morning Gregg and I worked on the creation of bible studies that we hope to start advertising for in the next couple of days. We spent the evening with the team leaders at the University Sports Complex where the boys tried connecting with some of the Spainard's through a game of basketball. Time is flying here even when it is light out until 10:30pm. We have decided this is why they have siesta time, otherwise everyone would be exhausted. Love from the Jennings!!

Bird and Bart

Hola,
Madrid was great and we have finally made it to Salamanca. Before we left the capital though Bird had a chance to hang out with a long time friend from the states. Salamanca is absolutely beautiful. It is the perfect European city with fabulous architecture. The city is alive with thousands of students here to study Spanish. We met this morning with Jesse Bentley, the team leader of the mission. We talked for a couple hours about our goals and expectations for the summer and their vision for us. It looks like we are going to have a great summer full of ministry opportunities. Would you please pray for us to be creative in our ministry? Without knowing Spanish we are limited to the people we encounter. Pray that God would give us wisdom and boldness to be used inspite of our weaknesses.