Well… I have no good excuse for not writing an update right now… so here we go. Obviously, tons of stuff has happened since our last post… if nothing else, our kids are more than a month older than the last time you saw them. How could I let that happen? How are you coping?
Well… let’s see… right now I’m sitting in bed. It’s 5pm and I’ve only been out of my bedroom once in the last, oh, 17 hours or so. I’ve got some kind of stomach bug or something. Not cool. But, already feeling better… I just ate some toast!
Obviously, I’m not going to be able to get you all of the details of life since the last post. So, lets go with some highlights.
Work here has continued to go well and life seems to fly by at an uncontrollable pace sometimes. We have tons of new friends and relationships that we are continuing to develop. It’s hard to complain when people say things to me like, “My friend is having a really hard time right now… I told him he needs to be praying and he needs God in his life. I also told him you would be happy to read the Bible and pray with him. Was that an okay thing to say?” We’ve been helping a friend rebuild her “house” in a poor neighborhood… which has been a sobering blessing. In the process I was reunited with a long lost friend that I haven’t seen in months, Ephrain! And we’re continuing to make lots of preparations for a medical campaign in July. Our plates are full.
While most of our friends and family in the states are now enjoying warm sunny days of baseball and hamburger cookouts, we’ve begun the long overcast and dreary winter of Lima. Most days now are 100% overcast with surprising bone chilling temperatures in the low 60′s. It’s hard to understand until you’ve experienced it. But, when it’s 60 degrees in your house with 100% humidity it can be a lot colder than it seems.
With the end of Peruvian summer also comes the beginning of the Peruvian school year.. and we are mired in the process of looking for a school for our boys. Peruvian public schools are horrendous and not even an option. That leaves home schooling or private schools. We’ve never had the desire or motivation to home school our kids… so, we’re looking for a reasonably affordable private school. There is a lot more to this that will get it’s own post soon… let’s just leave it to say that this is our biggest source of stress at the moment and could really use prayers.
Another thing, my camera broke. Again. So, after waiting a couple of weeks I took it to the shop here… after keeping it for two weeks they told me they couldn’t repair it without a new part that would cost $400! Well, I said no thanks and brought it home, depressed. Then, just looking to see if it would work at all… it does! I don’t know what happened but they didn’t charge me anything but it seems to be fixed… woo hoo! That being said… not many pics of late.
Oh, a HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY! to Stacy. Stacy celebrated her first birthday in Peru on April 23rd… wow… exactly a month ago. Hmm… what else? Stacy’s been taking some new Spanish classes at a school here in Miraflores… that’s been good.
One more thing, we finally went to the zoo here in Lima. We’ve always enjoyed going to the zoo as a family… not sure why it took us so long. The zoo was small but pretty good for the most part. The boys loved it!
Well, obviously, there’s so much more to share. Just know that we’re alive and well… still kicking down here in the Southern Hemisphere.
For more… Click here for more of Derek being cute and here for more zoo fun.
