Welcome, Aldolfo

We'd like you all to meet Aldolfo, picture below, the newest kiddo at New Life Children's Home. He joins 4 other siblings here. He's adapting quite well. The second or third day he was here I saw him and said "amigo!" (friend!) and he replied quite quickly "no mi nombre es Adolfo" or "no, my name is Aldolfo" now it's our joke and we go through the same song and dance most days. Aldolfo is 5 years old and the other little boys are really liking their new friend.

This past Thursday we took Lee's dad to the airport after he had spent a week with us. We were sad to see him go; we had such a great time with him. We left the children's home for one night with him, and then spent the rest of the week at the home. He helped out with several small construction projects, but most importantly we got some excellent time of just hanging out, talking and laughing.

Tomorrow is Guatemala's independence day. We can already see a few fireworks tonight noting the special day. Guatemala became independent from Spain in 1821. Our kids don't have school tomorrow and we'll be eating hamburgers for lunch!

This past week we had our first 2 small groups. On Mondays and Thursdays we have a group of 7 and 9 of our kids ranging in ages from 14-25. These small discipleship groups are not mandatory for the kids and we are super excited that 16 of them would choose to be involved in such a thing. Our language skills are being stretched! We are doing a 4 week series through the first part of October, we will have a team from Canyon, TX for 10 days, and then we will begin a new series.

We'll leave you tonight with a couple of pictures:

First, we have Aldolfo. What a cutie!


Here is a picture of Lee holding a lychee. A lychee is a fruit that is about the size of an apricot, but is red and is "hairy". Once you cut it open, inside is a "large, white, naked grape looking" fruit. It has a seed in the middle of it as well. It was a "hey we haven't tried it and Wesley (Lee's dad) is here, so why not" The taste was very mild - it sure didn't live up to it's outward appearance.