So we're continuing to get settled in our new house. Side tables and rocking chairs are being painted daily. Everyone is still figuring out what's the best way to have things in their room. At our old house, you could easily guess what would happen that night and who would be involved with those activities (depending on the night). Some people would be playing cards, there might be a guitar lesson going on and you could always count on the fact that some of us were outside on the porch. Here, we're still figuring out what the nights will look like- some games, maybe reading, or discussion time. When we step out of our house, we see our lovely new bathroom area and we're still in the backyard of El Puente- to actually get out on the street we have to walk thru El Puente.

      It's been good to back down here. I know we all are enjoying being together again and continuing to get to know each other more over these next 4(ish) months. We have also been able to run into some of the friends we've made down here and catch up with them some. I know we're all ready to start up with ministry down here (I definitely am) but it'll come in God's timing. And I think we've all realized to not have any expectations of what we think the ministry will look like- one of our largest lessons we all learned during the first 3 months is that it is pretty pointless to have expectations since things do not occur depending on how you think they should, they go by God's plan. Also, just realizing that since we are the first long term team down here, we are guinea pigs in a sense. Rules for trips and teams following us might be different from our rules, ministries might look different. And I have to realize I'm not going to be here for forever. And so I want to leave things behind so that when the next team comes in, they can pick up where we left off.