last week of oct

Hi all,
Sorry I've been awol this last week. Very sadly Exequiel, who is the husband of the couple I am living with, died on Tuesday. He had been in hospital after my first weekend here, he was admitted with a hernia the day after his 80th birthday party, and after 2 operations and complications just didn't recover. All the family have been here, going to the hospital and then making arrangements. There was a thanksgiving service on Wednesday and the funeral on Thursday. Both were absolutely lovely, really touching and I cannot imagine that they could have gone any better.

Yesterday I went to Valaparaíso with Joselyn which was a really great day. We stumbled across an art gallery with a surrealism exhibition, and then walked up one of the hills towards the house of the poet Pablo Neruda - and I absolutely fell in love with the hills. Took some photos on the lomo which I will post when developed. Also found another new little art gallery up there which I want to go back to, called Galeria Mirra, which has a great cafe too. So that was a fun day.

In the evening there was a meeting for the people involved in worship, really looking forward to what God does with that ministry...

And last night a girl I met in France this summer arrived in Viña so I'm going to go and meet her for lunch! Can't wait to see another familiar face!!

Lots of love...
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