Recent modes of travel...

Recently when Bill, Vicki and family were here, we had fun traveling around Costa Rica via different modes of transportation. Guess which ones are authentic and which are posed.





















What fun times and what fond memories!

Friendship...

Our very special friends have come to visit and we are having a great time. On Saturday, we took a boat ride down the Sarapiqui River and visited La Paz waterfalls (you can view more pictures from the waterfalls on an earlier post back in May).



Yesterday we visited San Jose and enjoyed some shopping. Then today, a school holiday - Costa Rica Independence Day, we arrived at Volcano Poas just in time to view the crater before the fog rolled in and then toured Dako Coffee Estate.



Tomorrow while we're back in school, they are zip lining and whitewater rafting. Cool memories for a very special family who must really love us to travel from Tennesee, Georgia and South Carolina to visit us. Thanks for making new memories!



By the way, do you know the Friend that is closer than a brother? If you want to know about how to know this Friend, contact us and we will be glad to share with you how we have found that Friend, a Friend for all eternity!

Happy Birthday, David!

Happy Birthday to the man who has grabbed hold to the call of God in His life and has held on faithfully, leading our family and others to answer and follow the same call. Thank you for living a life worthy of following as you daily walk humbly in the footsteps of Jesus living victoriously in the fullness of the presence of God! I love you, birthday boy! You are never too old to learn...Spanish!?

Hold us up!

It will be a week FILLED with challenges and opportunities. We are enouraged to know that you are holding us up in prayer before the Father. We rest in His ability definitely not ours!

El fin de semana...

WOW! It is el fin de semana (the weekend) thankfully!

Welcome, sit down, hold on 'cause Here We Go!

Well, vacation is past and the time has come...time to return to the nitty gritty of classroom language study. Tomorrow we enter our second trimester.

David begins classes at 7:30 and has two hours of Lenguaje (Conversation) before his break time and free period and then returns to class at 11:15 for two hours of Gramática.

Glynis has a similiar schedule except her classes begin at 8:25 and then she has two hours of Lenguaje, short break, returning for two hours of Gramática ending at 1 in the afternoon along with David. We do not have the same teachers so again we will get a mixture of teaching styles.

Do hold us up in prayer as we enter those early school day jitters, you remember...you try to recall what you studied the previous schedule and struggle to pull it back into use...but this time it is in Spanish with all new teachers!

I find encouragement for this trimester from my recent readings - "But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is He that giveth thee power ... that He may establish His covenant." Deuteronomy 8:18

Tomorrow walk in confidence with us..."Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is He which goeth over before thee..." Deuteronomy 9:3.