Kitchen Sink

This blog is quite late, but I wanted to do it anyway. My dad and Sixto got me a kitchen sink!!! and installed it with a faucet...no more sitting on a block of wood on the bathroom floor to wash the dishes. And, the kitchen sink is removable and so, when and if we move, we will be taking the kitchen sink with us!!! :-)

Before the kitchen sink we washed dishes on the bathroom floor...
this is not how I washed them...this was my mom's set up when she came to my house.

My dad and Sixto worked on getting a kitchen sink in the house while my parents were here.



Nice looking...huh? I was pleased with it like this, though Sixto had to carry water
one or two times a day for me to wash the dishes since Ady had just been born.

When we went to Chiclayo for the centennial celebration, we bought a faucet.

REALLY NICE LOOKING NOW...HUH?

100 Years in Peru

We had the privilege to go to the 100 year celebration of the Church of the Nazarene in Peru. It was in Chiclayo at the end of October to the first of November. We were able to visit with many friends from all over Peru that we hadn't seen for a very long time. We had a great time and it was a wonderful celebration. There were more than 10,000 Nazarenes at the final service on Sunday morning, and on Saturday, there was a Nazarene parade with over 12,000 people in it. I didn't go in the parade, because it would have been too much with a one month old, but Sixto took a bunch of pictures. Like I said, it was a wonderful time! Here are a few pics.

Update On Our Lives

Well, we came to Tarapoto to pick up my parents at the airport yesterday. Today we have spent the day shopping for things that we can't get in Campanilla (like mozzarella cheese!!!) and tomorrow we will head back home.
My mom and dad arrived very tired, but happy. We let them sleep from 3:30 pm until this morning around 7:00 am. They felt much better when they got up this morning. We spent some time with the family of my good friend, Nancy Mong. We wentto the plaza and had supper, and now I am showing you a picture of my current self. We are ready to go to bed so we can get up and go to Campanilla tomorrow and on the way, stop in Juanjui and pick up some packages from the post office (at least 3), Yay!!!
Well, that is a little update for now. We are feeling so blessed with my parents here! Thanks for all the well wishes from everyone. God has blessed us greatly!



 

With just about two weeks to go, some say I don't look
 very pregnant. Let me tell you, I feel pregnant!!

Visit from Nancy!!!

I was so blessed to have a couple days with my good friend, Nancy Mong. She is one of the missionaries I served with in Pucallpa. She now is married to one of our other co-workers, Tim Mong, and they live in Idaho. She was here in Peru, visiting her family, which fortunately for me, only live 2 1/2 hours away from me. So she and her mom came to visit us for a couple of days. We had a great time, and for all of you who want pregnant pictures, here are a few. So glad that Nancy could to visit! Now we are waiting on my parents next month!



Enjoying some cacoa! Que rico!

Nancy too!



Leaving the chacra of Uncle Edilberto and Aunt Maria.

Stopping to rest for a minute.



Having some fun at the river.

Our heart at the beach of the river.



ANTS!!!

So, several weeks ago, I was home alone for the day, and I thought, "Ahhh, I can fix something simple for lunch and relax a little bit!" WRONG!!! I walked in our bedroom to get a shirt, and found ants had taken up residency in our clothes! I don't mean one or two ants. I mean thousands of them, and they were building their nests in the crevices of our clothes. I was horrified! We had all our clothes that should be in a dresser, in a suitcase on top of a stool. That is so they don't get a musty smell, because if the suitcase is on the floor, the clothes get damp, and it is just not pleasant. So I began the task of finding the source of the ants. The came from the ceiling, down the cord that holds our pole for hanging clothes, down the sleeve of one of my shirts, onto and into the suitcase of clothing. I only took pictures of the outside, but they were in all the crevices of the clothes with more of the white nest that you see in these pictures. Once I found the source, I started washing the clothes and got all the clothes out of the suitcase and put the suitcase outside in the sun so the ants would leave. It took all morning to wash all the clothes (I had just washed them all two days before), and by early afternoon they were all dry and folded and put back in the suitcase...just in time for Sixto to come home and see me sitting in the hammock...hahaha...so much for relaxing! I thank God that I found the ants before I put on any of the clothes, because that would have been painful!!!

Gifts from Broadway Church of the Nazarene

This past Sunday, March 9, was the day before school started here in Peru. Thanks to the church family at Broadway Church of the Nazarene in Parkersburg, WV for sending 3 boxes of school supplies and money for notebooks to us, here in Campanilla, Peru. We were able to give 38 packets of school supplies to the children and youth of the church. There were 10 preschoolers, 15 primary schoolers, and 13 highschoolers who received bags of goodies. The pictures are a little blurry and dark because there was no electricity that night, and all but 8 of the kids were there. Three who weren't there are from the same family and the two youngest are getting over Dengue Fever. There names are Jhon David and Joel. The children were very excited to receive the supplies, and we even put a few candies in with the supplies too. Thanks for all that you did for our kids, and enjoy the pictures. Pray for these children, that they will have a good year in school and learn all that they can! And, the adults received the notebooks that were sent and a pen, for Sunday School. We bought more than 100 notebooks for the kids with money sent from Broadway, because the notebooks they use here are different than those from the states. However, the adults were happy to receive their school supplies too! Thanks Broadway Church of the Nazarene for your support of your church family abroad!



 

The preschoolers



Primary School kids





Everyone in the congregation with their gifts