Back by the Beach

We arrived home safely after a pleasant five hour drive. We paid for private transportation from Carlos and Rosario´s home to our condo. The driver arrived one hour early, just as we were going to have lunch, so Rosario asked him to join us. We had a delicious chicken and rice lunch. Since we prayed before dinner, the driver asked us if we were Christians. It turns out that he is also a Christian, even though he doesn't attend church regularly due to his work schedule, but his wife teaches Sunday school, and all his five children are saved. We had a great time during our drive as we shared about the Lord with each other.

During our one day stay in the capital, we took the opportunity to purchase a cell phone. Now we are accessible to our friends here all the time. We were almost home when the phone rang. It was Rosario to let us know that our brand new friends from Guatemala wanted to come visit us next week. We said yes, of course. So, all five of them will arrive on Wednesday here and will leave on Friday. It is only one and a half hour flight from Guatemala. Carlos and Rosario are coming Monday. On Tuesday, we are going to drive to where the two missionaries who work here live, in order to have a meeting with them. We will be back here Wednesday morning, and our other guests will arrive the same day in the afternoon. It is going to be a busy week.

MORE CAR TROUBLE!!!

Today we started the car for the first time and were on our way to get groceries for all our guests next week, but we did not even make it out of the Hacienda, which is a good thing. The car stopped and we had to call our friend in transportation. We thought that it was the radiator, but adding water did not help. Transportation took us grocery shopping and ordered a rental car for us. This is going to be very expensive, as it is high season here. They will tow our car to the transportation shop, but the mechanic is off until Tuesday. That's why we need a rental. It will probably take the whole week for the car to be fixed. Please pray that this will be something simple and not too expensive. We also need to pass the technical check to get our circulation sticker for the year. Please pray that our car gets fixed and that it passes the check next month before we leave.

One last thing: the washing machine broke down again!! Please pray for all these things get fixed and that they won't be too expensive!!!

Tonight we are planning to go to dinner with some of our friends, and tomorrow we will attend church.

Have a blessed Palm Sunday!!

Until next time...from the beach...