Up for air...

So many things have been happening this past week since I last posted. We did have a one-day rental group on Saturday of 80 people for a marriage retreat. The preparations for this group began on Friday afternoon with an extensive scrub down of the camp kitchen and bathrooms. Before Heather and I got done with that some members of the group did come in on Friday evening to begin decorating, hauling in a large amount of fresh flowers. We did finish the swimming pool painting and now the pool is again filled up with water and will be used this weekend by a group for a baptism ceremony. Also, last week from Tuesday evening through Friday evening Ken and I finished attending Bible study. Other than that, we have had the van break down again and had another appointment today for it to be looked over by the same repairman. We have had various dentist's appointments as well.

The weather here has been extremely dry over the past couple of weeks compared with this time last year. "Rumor" has it that this is not good because it often coincides with earthquakes. While we have felt some minor trembles; it feels like someone is heavily walking across the floor of your house, I am happy to report that there has not been anything major. We are in winter season here and also that means rainy season as well. Finally, today we have had on and off heavy rains beginning this afternoon, although before the rain came without warning we lost power for a few hours. Since the rain has begun this afternoon we have had power restored, only to lose it again. For now, it has been on again for a couple of hours. Needless to say, not a whole lot got done around the house today like laundry, for instance, but it kind of comes with the territory!

Both Saturday and on Sunday following church we felt that the Lord would have us open the doors of our home for hospitality. We had a good time entertaining some Tico families this weekend and hope that it was a blessing for them as well.

Currently, the camp is pretty much booked up until the end of the year already and then in January we begin the onslaught of our "busy" season with short-term teams.

Well, hopefully tomorrow will be a more productive day...with being kind of busy as of late, we are running out of clean clothes! Hope you are having a blessed week.