Becoming home...

This weekend we are spending a 4 day weekend at the children's home working our our apartment so that when we move here (in 3 weeks!) we will be able to move right into our apartment.

On Friday we headed out with Kendon and Wendy who graciously drove us around the city and lent us great wisdom and advice along the way. Before 2pm we had purchased a bed, a couch, loveseat and chair set, and a small dining room table that is now our coffee table. (Right now, Don, a retired high school shop teacher is here, he chopped the legs right off of that table and it now sits in between our living room furniture.) Daniel & Kara met us for a late lunch and then took us to Pricemart (much like a Sam's) where we picked up a few more things.

Saturday morning Lee left with Elmer, an employee here and Pablo a teenager who lives here to retrieve our furniture. A couple hours later they returned with all of the living room furniture in tow. They were also gracias to help Lee get it all up into our 3rd story apartment.

After the furniture was in place, we were able to borrow a vehicle and made our way to Hiper Paiz (much like a Wal-Mart) and found things like shower curtains, silverware, cleaning supplies, and a few kitchen essentials. There are still a few things that we need to get like plates, cups and a microwave - that will happen with time. It is such a good feeling to have accomplished all we did this weekend.

The Lord was really gracious to give us time with people who could haul us around and who knew what they were doing. We believe that we got great deals on the stuff that we purchased, and even have money left within our budget to purchase things that we still need.

Right now we're in the dry season which means a lot of dust, add that to the construction dust (we're the first people to live in our apartment) and you get one dusty place. Thanks to the use of Daniel & Kara's vacuum cleaner and several passes with the mop we're mostly dust free. We had time today to put stuff into cabinets - in short, we're excited to be here in 3 weeks.

This morning at church they celebrated their 29th anniversary. Upwards of 15,000 people joined together to celebrate such an event. They invited Marcos Witt, a big name in Latin countries to lead worship and preach. Afterwards we went to celebrate Esdras' birthday and enjoyed a yummy meal from Taco Bell.

So, tomorrow we leave to go back to Antigua and will finish out our last 3 weeks of school.