Week of December 3 - 9 , 2012
The
spring weather here is turning blustery, raining in waves for entire
days, then it turns hot. The mosquitos are showing up and they’re
hungry! We saw just one firefly one evening…
Wednesday, the
Internet was out. It’s then that we realize just how dependent we
are! Evenings, I kept trying to bake – cookie dough, apple
empanadas, but the oven just won’t stay on… re-lighting several
times is just too fruitless! Carlos Camacho, one of the maintenance men, came over twice, finally
tweaking the valve and thermal coupler, until the oven will
stay lit. It runs really hot (we have an oven thermometer left to us
by Thea when she returned to the States), so I’ve got to really pay
attention when something is baking! When the internet returned Janet did some Christmas
shopping online to get the kids and grandkids gift certificates.
We brought fewer
clothes this year (in their place we’d packed work clothes, for the
Work and Witness project, that we wore and left in
Costa Rica), so our Saturday project was finding a couple of shirts
for Dan. We were successful in a cute shop in downtown Pilar!
Sunday night’s
service at Iglesia Altos del Pilar was an awesome production called
“Sorpresa en el altillo”
(Surprise in the Attic)! This church has a very dedicated bunch of
young adults who work hard at their theater productions. They are
all good actors and their dedication is evident in the quality of the
plays. It was also an evening to honor the end of the Sunday School
year and all who had completed their course of study. Two adult
classes even got certificates for finishing their levels of Master’s
Plan Discipleship study. The best part for us is that we understand so much more
of what’s happening this year!
