Sunday evening...

Thanks for the comment, Mital, we did have a fun little excursion this weekend!

This morning we met up with our friends Pat & Bill who are serving with an organization called Youth With a Mission (YWAM) for a couple of years. They live just a bit outside of Antigua and attend a small church about 2 kilometers from Antigua.

Now before you all laugh at the less than a mile a way adventure, let me just say that people around here consider 2 kilometers quite a distance. We've had several conversations with our host family about this topic - there kids attend a school that is between 1 and 2 kilometers away. When the new school year started a few weeks ago there was much discussion in the house about the bus routes and how one of the kids had to get up an extra 30 minutes early to catch the bus to take him 1 kilometer. We've tried to explain how we west Texans would drive 4 hours for a drink of water. We realize that is stretching it a bit as well, but our concept of distance and time is much different than ours. One night I told them that on several occasions my sister and I would each drive about an hour so that we could meet for dinner. They couldn't imagine doing that - both my sister and I just considered it a treat.

Ok, back to the days activities - we met up with Pat & Bill and had planned on taking a 5 minute bus ride to the church. There is a lot of construction going on right now, so we ended up walking to the church. It was a great walk, and nice to see new things. The church was small, and we'd describe the service as typical Guatemalan. Pat & Bill took us to see the YWAM base that we had heard about for sometime and then we came back and ate some delicious italian food for lunch.

We are looking forward to our last 4 weeks of school - it's hard to believe that we only have 4 weeks left! This Thursday we are planning on going back to the home and making a few purchases this weekend that will begin to make the apartment that we will live in our home. We'd ask you to pray for wisdom about our purchases, and that we could simply attain the things that we need.