So, God is really breaking our hearts for our neighbors. and it's hard. We have these neighbors up the street, living in a "two bedroom" studio. EIGHT of them.  There's a mom in her 40s, 3 of her 6 kids, and her daughter's 4 children. They have no electricity because they can't afford it. their shower is currently backed up but it appears that they ( Read more... )

 
I think I post something along these lines every year, but I think it's cool, so I'm taking liberties to post it, yet again. : D

Back in the day...I mean way back...there was a time in England when Catholics could not openly practice their faith, or else they would risk persecution. (I don't know all the history on this, it's just what I read.) So ( Read more... )

 So, I have a sty in my right eye. It hurts like heck. So, I went to the doctor. Nay, an urgent care. Let's just say they didn't really know what they were doing. They took care of my eye just fine, that was not the problem. The problem was the nurse.
The nurse walks in and he says, "have you ever a flu shot before?" I figured he was just making ( Read more... )

I will now attempt to summarize the past two amazing weeks:

I left my arizona family for more-or-less two weeks.

I fulfilled my dream of going to Hawaii.
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Ever since we had our bbq on sunday, our neighborhood has felt different.  Good-different, that is. God is doing so much here in this little barrio that you can just feel it in the air. Monday, Tuesday, AND Wednesday afternoons one little boy of about 12 or 13 came by with a couple of his friends to see our roommate Amber. It's evident that the ( Read more... )

I know I already posted a blog about the bbq we had over the weekend, but I did not go into much detail, so here is the extended version!

We had a bbq for all of our neighbors...sort of like a block party. (what I would imagine a block party to be like, anyway, since I've never actually experienced one!) The bbq turned out incredibly, much better ( Read more... )

 Sunday afternoon (yesterday) we had a bbq for all of our neighbors as a way to reach out to them. Saturday afternoon we went around the neighborhood and handed out 50 fliers to invite all our neighbors, and honestly we weren't sure if many people would come. We probably ended up having about a dozen families here!!! It was incredible! We were able ( Read more... )

Tomorrow we are having a free barbecue for our neighbors. We are going to have burgers and hot dogs and carne asada and chicken and sodas and everything.

Today we are going to hand out fliers and invite our neighbors to the bbq. Please pray for us as we try and build relationships. 

 Today is the day our baby boy was due to be born.
In the past couple weeks I've been thinking about this quite a bit. I've been thinking about what it would have been like to have carried him to full term. I've been thinking about what he would look like: Would he have curly hair like us? Would he have blonde hair like Dan did or dark like I did? ( Read more... )

 
Here's a "family picture" of all of us who live in the house together.


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