January 2, 2011

January 2, 2011

This is the day the Lord hath made!  We will rejoice and be glad in it! 

We awoke this morning to another beautiful day in Guatemala.  Getting ready this morning was a little difficult due to the fact that our hot water was not working.  I have such a hard time with cold showers!  Kim tried heating water on the small, electric cooktop that we have and putting it in the bathtub.  That just wasn’t working to well.  Eventually the hot water decided to work again and we all took quick showers to get ready for church.  The day before, our water didn’t work at all for about 4 hours.  I guess there are some things we are just going to have to get use to, and try to adjust our spoiled, North American nature a bit.  We met with our neighbors and walked to church.  The church is located in the middle of a small coffee field which is pretty nice and refreshing.  Our kids did well considering church lasted three hours.  It was nice to see some familiar faces from my past trip in November, and to see Pastor Israel again.  Pastor Israel wants to come to our home tomorrow evening and meet with us about our plans and vision in ministry.  We are excited about him coming, but also wandering where we will sit down to meet in our home.  We have only a small futon sofa and no chairs.  I was thinking it would be nice to offer him some coffee, but then remembered that I only have one coffee mug.  Maybe tomorrow morning would be a good time to shop a little, you think?

Danny