making new friends!

The rain has stopped!  Praise the Lord!  We finally have some dry clothes.  What took a week to dry took only 2 hrs this morning.  We hung a clothes line on the roof top to maximize our drying potential.  I almost had to rewash everything because of the lingering dampness and the smell.

Meet our newest members of the family!  Max decided he wanted to try raising chickens.  We bought 12 chicks and 6 survived the cold nights.  He has taken on this "farming" role quite seriously and wept in bed one night over the chicks that died.  I reminded him that it was not his fault and that he is doing the best he can.  This morning the boys constructed somewhat of a coup in the yard.   I told them chickens were as far as I would go with farming:)

We were invited to a missionaries home for lunch today and were incredibly blessed by their testimony of faith and obedience.  I am so thankful for the connections we are making with new relationships here and the support we can provide for each other.  David and Julie Sutton  are also a part of Commission to Every Nation and have been serving here in Guatemala for the past 12 years.  Their wisdom and guidance has really helped us in settling into this culture.   Julie is a nurse who has set up many clinics over the past decade, and has recently been visiting the women's prison here in Jalapa.  She invited me to join her next week to see a little of what she does.  I'll keep you posted!