The house of my dreams...
Thank you for praying, we've found a place to rent temporarily. It provides us with some added security, closeness to Mexican people for contacts and language acquisition and it is close to Pastor Martin Castro with whom we're working. It's a pretty small place, 2 bedrooms a kitchen / dining room and a bathroom. It has water, electricity, kitchen sinks, cupboards, an indoor bathroom! All the comforts you could ever need! It is an apartment attached to an abarrotes ( corner store ) and the "backyard" will need a bit of a garbage pickup before it'll be "play-in-able" for the kids. It'll be good for now and when we know what our support looks like, we may try to move into something with a yard and maybe even a living room. Praise God!!
Another praise item is that YUGO just received a fridge and stove (most rentals don't even come with the basics...) a bedroom suite and another bed for the kids... It's a blessing for sure, because we came down with so little stuff. God really is our provider! We move in on the 15th of September. Hopefully we'll have a telephone too at that time. We plan on getting a Vonage VOIP phone with unlimited calling to Canada and USA. We may even get a Canadian phone number with it too. We're looking forward to being able to communicate from our home again!
PRAYER ITEMS:
Kids schooling...
We are praying about sending the kids to the local school where Pastor Martins kids and the children's home kids go, primarily for language learning and acculturation. It is only 1/2 days, so we'd likely homeschool the other half of the day especially while the kids are learning Spanish. That will give us a better idea the comparison between the 2 systems...
Language Training...
Immersion is about the best way to learn a language, I'm told. So that's what we are doing, but it takes an effort here in our area because of the abundance of English speakers. Pray that we would be diligent to immerse ourselves.
It can be very draining and taxing to learn a language by immersion. For the last 30 years or so that part of communication has been on "automatic pilot". We communicate without thinking a lot. Now though every thought, every request, most of our reading, every transaction with someone outside the home is a mind numbing experience. So it often becomes difficult to do much of anything because you brain is sapped by the end of the day. We realize that our primary job the next little while is to acquire a new language, but there are always temptations and inner and outer pushings to "do more". Please pray for us in this regard.
THANKS FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP!!!
We appreciate each and every one of you who have been partners with us. We have sensed your prayers for us almost continually. The last week in a trailer has been stressful, but for the most part we have met each other with patience, longsuffering and grace- an answer to your prayers!
God has been very good to us and we are thankful! Scott and Jennifer Pepito ( fellow missionaries ) were generous enough to open up their property to us, and that's the reason we were able to come down=- we are very thankful for their hospitality and their giving spirits. They are in the process of building a ministry home (and a second in the future) where families can come down to Mexico and minister in the nearby communities and be ministered to by the Pepitos- so if your are looking for something like that, let us know and we'll hook you up!
Thanks again!
Blessings until next time,
Mike and Shar
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