Yesterday was Sunday. 

The morning started with the regular turning off of the power in the city.  Every week I tell myself "next week I'll jump up out of bed as soon as I wake up and jump in the shower so I don't feel like I'm showering in a dark cave" but I forgot...again kicking myself the second I heard the house go silent - no fans....no A/C...no nothing.  I also forgot to put a big pan in the fridge to catch all the melted ice off the icebox - so had to dump a lot - not because it went bad but because it got filled with water....again!  One day I'll remember.....or maybe not!  Fortunately the fridge is small so there wasn't too terribly much to spoil....thankfully we brought some gladware with us to store things in!!

Thad led singing...in Spanish at worship.  Friday night at the song service they asked him if he would preach in Spanish on Sunday.  He told them perhaps in 3 years....but then they said "okay you can lead singing then"  hee hee....pretty smart of them if you ask me :-)  

At that point they said "well you lead 3-4 songs and then someone else can do the rest"  Saturday night we had Dago (and his wife), one of the church leaders over for dinner, and he gave Thad the order of service, and never mentioned anyone else leading singing, but instead told Thad how many songs, etc.  Thad realized it was all him...ha ha!!  

He did fabulous...as always!!  We were really proud of him.  After worship service we headed to the beach (yes, for those that know us we were craving Moe's)....couldn't open our fridge and we didn't want a sandwich so why not go out for lunch.  So we sat on the beach enjoying the tranquility of it all for a couple of hours, enjoyed some yummy fresh  shrimp, etc!  The whole town was quiet.   

We walked back up the mountain home and joined in with the rest of Trujillo and did almost nothing all day....til friends showed up in our house to play...that's right, I happened to walk past the stairway and there are 2 quietly giggling little girls just waiting to be spotted waiting to play with MaryKyle and John Mark.  As soon as they were welcomed in they multiplied.  

We ended up with about 4-5 kids and the kids played relays - think egg in the spoon, but with lemons from the lemon trees out our door.  And just in general had a fun evening!!

Life is good. We were told the campesinos were coming in town today to take over the schools to try to get the teachers to go on strike, but when Thad went to town for some supplies for needed work projects at the school there were guards at the public and Catholic schools, but no campesinos in sight.  It's not expected by the way that this would effect our school if it were to happen.