Pastor Jose's wife makes and sells wonderful tamales everyday at their home. They are quiet different than I've had before because they have meat and veggies in them, but they are really good!! We bought a bunch for comida (lunch) on Saturday and really enjoyed them.
Our neighbor Candy says if we like the beach at Ceuta, we should check out the beach at Celestino, a little south of us…she says its even nicer. So we are going to try to make some time to get down there and check it out.
We have another neighbor that we just discovered on the weekend…a spider as nearly as big as the palm of Ralph's hand that lives in our bathroom. Our bathroom is small, but we don't mind sharing with him so far. He's completely non-aggressive, and runs when he sees or hears anyone coming. Completely not interested in us. He's flat and brown and not hairy, which people tell us is good, and not to worry too much about him. Mikey, want to move him outside for me??? Just kidding. Mike was my official spider mover at work when there was a big one in my office that I didn't want to deal with.
We've gotten to the point that we see Pastor Jose nearly everyday in our travels, he's out and about a lot and so are we, so we cross paths. We've been to his house a couple of times, he's been to ours once so far. He's a sweet man, great sense of humor too. We are enjoying getting to know him and his family.
Carnival begins this week, so that's a big point of prayer. There has already been a lot of pre-carnival partying in town, and everyone says that will just increase as they days go by. We are thankful we aren't in Mazatlan right now, they are home to the world's third largest Carnival, right behind Rio and New Orleans. There is concern that because New Orleans has cut back that Mazatlan's celebrations will be even bigger. Please keep that in prayer, February 23-28.
Last week we were pleased to see about 100 or more youth marching down the two main streets of La Cruz in support of families and against drugs and alcohol. Pretty amazing to see all those kids, and some adults turn out. We thanked them as we saw them, and took a couple of quick pictures.
Tom and Lidia and the girls were up over the weekend and were blessed to find a house to rent on Sunday evening! They are very excited and plan to move up on March 5. We look forward to having them as neighbors in La Cruz, they aren't all that far from us.
We are excited that next week after our team meeting in Mazatlan that we'll be having lunch with some retired missionaries, the Knutsons, and the luncheon invitation has also been extended to our neighbors in Olympia, the Krumlands!! We are looking forward to visiting with them!
We have been struck with “missionary stomach” this week and have both been feeling lousy…and combine that with a severe case of homesickness to make it even worse. We need prayer in both these areas. I would ask that you also pray for our telephone and internet access. If we could talk to the kids or see them I think we would be doing better, but we can't use our video setup from the Internet cafe, and we have had another delay in getting the phone, and can't get the internet access until the phone is installed. They told us two weeks, and that has passed and when I checked on it this morning they said one more week…seems like forever.
Overall life is good, we are learning more every day and meeting more and more new people. Even another El Salto guide, Julio. We are thankful to the Lord and to all of you for your faithfulness. Love and blessings from warm and sunny La Cruz!
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