As I sit on
our front porch writing this latest post, I can look to the South West and see
the beautiful Mogote mountain range and to the North West I can see the tip of
Atravesada. And for one more time yet I am truly amazed and thankful to our God
that he has called our family to this place, at this time. I am reminded of the
story of Esther where Modecai tells Ester “for such a time as this you were called”. But I still can’t help
but ask, Why us? Why now? I also wonder why I didn’t ask myself those same
questions two years ago, five years ago, 20 years ago. I am convinced that I
was also in Gods will then, but just didn’t think of it that way. I would
challenge you to look at your life and where you are at now and KNOW that you
are where you are for a reason and ask what that reason is and maybe how you
can be used better by God right there.
Well as the title notes, we moved a
couple of weeks ago and it feels like home now. Along with the new home we
inherited a dog named Buddy, or according the rest of the family, the only way
to get the dog was to move into this house :). We are thankful that the Luna’s
offered us their house for the first few months of our time here and it worked
out great for that period. This also will work out good I am sure. Marcy has
made lots of friends here already, (I am sure most of you are thinking “really?
I can’t believe that!!!”) The first week after moving in the school was closed
so it worked out good to give us time to move in and get settled.
Karen and I will be back at Genesis
next week again to start getting ready for the fall trimester and Marcy and
Janae start back at Jarabacoa Christian School on Thursday (at least that is
what the neighbors tell us, It works a little different here as there is no
formal announcement of when school starts or stops or days off or…… You just
kinda find those things out by word of mouth. No real schedules or anything
like that.) So Janae and Marcy both have been working on some of the summer
papers that they had brought home in the spring.
Vehicle repairs still remain at the top
of my frustration list, (which by the way has only one item on the list) I did pick up our car yesterday afternoon after having it
in the shop all week, Ishmael put it back in usable order until he can find a
different differential. He thinks it may take a couple of weeks to locate one
and knew that I didn’t want to be without for that long. So that was a blessing
to have that back at least for now. I picked up my Yamaha moto this afternoon after 5-1/2 weeks of being in the shop. I had asked to take all the old parts with me just to make sure that he doesn't put them back in sometime down the road. That has been the practice of some of the mechanics here so I figured I may as well not tempt him.
We experienced our first trip to the
emergency room a couple of weeks ago and it wasn’t for the girls. At least not
the younger girls. J. Short version was
that Karen was trying to help out with the fact that we were being
transportation challenged and thought she would help out by learning to drive
the moto. It was a small moped type moto that I had bought from one of the
other staff that had been wrecked and we needed something for a spare for the
time being. Anyway, I had worked with her on it the previous week and knowing
that she was not comfortable on it, just decided to not pursue that anymore.
She had not given up on the idea though and met with a concrete wall at the
Genesis site when I was gone one afternoon. After a few stitches in her
forehead and a sore shoulder, we were back home in an hour and a half and that
night at the dinner table could look back and thank God that it had not been
worse, and also thanked God for Marcy that she got Karen’s cell phone and
called me to come help.(notice there was not photo for that story, I think there may have been serious repercussions for me if I would have tried that. It is risky enough just mentioning the story the story at all)
I will be posting a video on here in
the next week hopefully with a tour of our new house and a few other things. I
was asked by our home church (Shore Mennonite) to put something together again
like I did in May so you can be watching for that.
