we live amidst God’s creation
everyday, we hear screaming hawks
and see cattle ripping, chewing, at the grass

it rains and rains
…
and rains
but we still get to enjoy the sun,
a little almost everyday

it hails regularly
and we delight in
the regular rainbows that make appearances

reminding us of God’s faithfulness

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We’ve been meeting more people. Yesterday, we were invited into Ana and Carlos’s home for coffee and a snack and conversation and to meet their son Juan Carlos who is 14 and wants to become an English teacher. We met Ana and Carlos through buying food at their store. They were incredibly hospitable, and it’ll be neat to continue that relationship. Their daughter is 21; she drove us home and opened up about some struggles she is having.
Next week we’re going to start meeting with Ernan and Cristina for coffee & conversation time – Ernan wants to learn more English, and Travis wants to learn more Spanish, so it’ll be a time of trading languages and fun.
God’s really been opening up doors, and we get to walk through them. It’s been incredible. I know that missions work definitely has difficult times, but so far we’ve been really having a good time and it’s been enjoyable. We wake up in the mornings and spend the mornings praying together and having individual prayer and devotion times.
And it’s just like… i almost think, “yikes, once it gets hard, it’s going to be REALLY hard, ‘cuz right now things are just so nice!” Not that there aren’t difficulties – i miss my family a whole lot; as of right now there isn’t a way to call them from Quemchi (unless you pay an arm and a leg… figuratively, of course). It’s hard to come by dry wood which makes keeping a fire going to heat your cabin a bit of a challenge. But really…
i have felt so blessed here by the people. I came to be a blessing in Quemchi, and i’ve been receiving so many blessings.
That’s all for now.
Lovingly…