{"id":43,"date":"2015-08-10T21:18:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T04:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2016-06-01T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T04:28:08","slug":"working-on-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/working-on-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Working on Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Spanish continues to improve, bit by bit. Last month I spent an evening at Campestre Hispana, or Spanish Campmeeting at Oregon Conferece. I really enjoyed singing contemporary worship songs in Spanish, with the words up on the screen. My brain mostly processed whether I <\/span>should<\/span><\/i> know the word or not, not what each word actually meant. But it was really powerful to experience that, singing with hundreds of other worshipers who serve the same God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last Sabbath I visited Vancouver Spanish church. This was definitely a more intimidating experience, because there were only maybe a hundred people at the service, and there was no way to hide my poor Spanish. But they were very gracious and showed great hospitality. I found I could follow the general flow of the various presenters at Sabbath School and church, and was able to find a few of the scripture references as they were announced.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were several kids there who I know from school, classmates of my kids. It was fun going up to them during the greeting time and seeing their shocked look as I said, “Feliz S\u00e1bado!” (happy Sabbath).<\/span><\/p>\n

I left church with my head hurting. But here’s my new mantra: Si mi cerebro no duele, entonces no estoy intentando lo suficiente. If my head doesn’t hurt, I’m not trying hard enough.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Spanish continues to improve, bit by bit. Last month I spent an evening at Campestre Hispana, or Spanish Campmeeting at Oregon Conferece. I really enjoyed singing contemporary worship songs in Spanish, with the words up on the screen. My brain mostly processed whether I should know the word or not, not what each word […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anadventuretogether.ctsmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}