intitial thoughts

Estoy Aqui!
Im tucked away in a little internet cafe near our home in Buenos Aires right now. Its Saturday, which is our sabbath day so we have a lot of time to be free to do what we need to.
Ive been in Buenos Aires for 5 days now. I met up with my team at the Houston airport where we flew out together. Matt, Amanda, and I found each other pretty quickly at our concourse and so we waited for our other teammate Jason before we boarded the plane. We waited and waited and waited until we could wait no more. He never showed up. Well we found out later that he had some misinformed information about his flight date. So it was just the three of us for a couple days. But we are all together and having a grand time.
I have so much that I could talk about regarding the first few days so it is hard to know where to start. Forgive me for scattered thoughts.
The language: this has been the hardest aspect of being here. I so want to be able to connunicate with the people around me who speak little to no english. I cannot communicate in stores and even when I try funble around with the few spanish words I know and sound very much like a foreigner. I know that it will take time to learn, time and patience, but for the time being it feels very much like a hindrance. Por la noche I am having trouble thinking in English let alone Spanish.I am looking forward to our twice a week spanish classes. Here is a little Argentine language lesson for you- the double L "ll" in most spanish makes a "Y" sound; eg. pollo= poyo (chicken). But in argentina the double L makes a "sh" sound so pollo sounds like poysho y ella sounds like asia. The same with Y and J at the beginning of a word. In case you were interested.
Our "home": we are staying in a baptist church in Barracas, which is a barrio of Buenos Aires. A couple of the girls from the last servant team stayed there and the church loved having them so much so that they wanted to host the group again. They even went as far as to build us rooms (one for the guys to share y one for the girls to share)! A few people from the community also live in the church and we have enjoyed getting to know them and "talking" to them. (I forgot to mention that Amanda is fluent in Spanish so she is a GREAT help!) We ate dinner with the pastor Juan Jose and his wife Lorena last night. Their home is attached to the church. Juan Jose speaks english very well but his wife only knows a few words. They are wonderful people who are very gracious and helpful. We had a good time in community with them. The church has a very good relationship with the Word Made Flesh team here and have been partnering with them in ministry for years now.
Unfortunately I am at a stopping point with much more to say. So please allow me to finish my thoughts sometime in the next week.
In the meantime please keep my team and me in your prayers. And pray especially that God would grant me a quick mind to pick up the language.
God bless and much love!