by jeannie | Jun 16, 2012 | Blog |
We made it! Danny came over this morning, and he showed us around for a few hours. We went to the grocery store today, (quite the experience) and currently have no internet but we can use our neighbor’s until we work it out. We drove over to a place and had dinner tonight as a family and found our way home just fine. The kids swam all afternoon. ( see picture below) A little culture shock on Ella’s part but she’s ok. They notice there are guards at each location we visit. This morning we were greeted by Katia, wanting rent. It was a big reminder of how bad our Spanish is. We had a hard time b/c we could NOT remember the word for “paid.” (among other words and she knew NO English) Rent had already been paid and got worked out fine. But now I’m carrying the Spanish/English dictionary. 🙂 Later today, Marcia showed up and proceeded to clean our house, start laundry and was still here cleaning when we got back from the store, helped us put up our groceries and sliced up our mangos and pineapple for us and put them in the refrigerator. She works for the Normans but we are so glad she’s still coming and we’ll see her 3X a week while we’re here. She joined us for lunch, (sandwiches) and she is helping us with our Spanish already. We were greeted at the airport by Danny Sharpe last night. He showed us homes on the way back to the Norman’s that the government builds for teachers and other public servants (police,...
by jimmy | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog, Uncategorized |
For many months we have been adjusting to our move into a new house. It has been both a blessing and the challenge of our lives… We are trying to show the kids how to love their friends in the midst of strife but sometimes it just takes action to get the point across. Jeannie and I will be a little more open to new adventures in 2012 and we embarked on one Monday night. I though I would share the story and how our blessings come in the strangest of ways. My commute to work takes me around 183 to I-35 each morning and on one of those days I felt that small still voice nudge me to a place that I have not been in 25 years. Not since my parents would take my sister and I there out on SPID in Corpus. Red Lobster! Yes, the same thought went through my head and Jeannie’s when I told her we needed to go have dinner there. Needless to say, I let it slide. But each day, I would see the familiar Red Lobster sign and knew something had to be done….but what? We decided we would do something we always heard about but never did. We would go have dinner and select a family to bless with their meal…anonymously. So we loaded up the kids and told them of our adventure. They were very excited. We were seated in the center of the restaurant after a long pause at the tank full of live lobster. I told myself we need to wait and let God show us...
