!!Our Vehicles Are Back In The Driveway!!

       Praise and Thanks to God. Our vehicles are back in the driveway once again. The Moto's are both running top notch and the car is .......... Well the car is in running condition again. Like I had said before, our vehicle maintenance has been probably our biggest frustration since arriving. But at the same time, God has been good in that when it does break down, it is always at a convenient time when either we dont have to have it for a couple of days and the weather is good for riding the moto or there has been another missionary away for a while and they have been gracious enough to let us use theirs. (Thanks so much Dick and Mary Ellen). At this point there is a gear in the front differential that is bad and a new one can't be ordered and so far no used one has been located. Since the vehicles here are mostly different than in the states, it is usually not even an option to order one from there and send it down. After thinking that they had located one from a different make that had the same part number, we were without it for about 10 days. They tried the one part right away and realized that it would not work then looked for the next week with no luck on a different one. So they did put it back like it was so it is drivable again at least. The Transmission is also slipping a bit here and there :(
           But, on the other side, all of our family has been healthy since arriving, we have all adapted well to the culture and Spanish is coming along for us at a slow but steady rate. So we really do have a lot to be thankfully for. We have decided now that we will begin to look for a different vehicle in hopes that we can come up with one while this one is still working. Some of the missionaries here have in the past had two vehicles so they have one that works all the time at least. We will not go that route, but I do think we need one that is more dependable so we will at least start looking.
           The school is going good. Check our the Genesis blog if you haven't yet. We have our first fall team here now and will start working at Genesis on Monday the 8th of Oct. They will be here for one week and then another 1 week team next week and then a week off before the two week team in November. My folks are coming down for a week in about 10 days so we are all looking forward to that. I have some projects lined up for Dad and I am sure Mom will keep busy as well. While Fred and Lauren were here a couple of weeks ago, I ran some ideas past them for things we could do with my folks. Lauren suggested that "cliff jumping" into the river would not be one of them so I will need to come up with another activity for that time slot. But they both agreed that the Ice Cream shop would work out well.