Week 29

It's been SO hot and muggy here lately. It's been dry for months but this last week we had several days of it being so humid there was a haze over everything. I don't know if you can tell in the pic but from the beach the lodge was hazy.

And then finally some rain! Check out how everything is dead, even the grass:

And we got a lot of rain, the grass is already turning green and our water tanks are full!

The grape trees all decided to lose their leaves at the same time, and they do not fall apart I think they're made of rubber. So we've been raking. Think it needed to be done?

 Joel's been helping out on another project across the lagoon with Jay at a fishing lodge. Since he is able to help Jay he will make more money since he doesn't have to hire help. Here they put up a  block base for the rain barrel you see behind it, now it's high enough to have running water in the caretakers house, they are very excited.

Here's the swimming pool that's being built (full of water already lol) Joel and Jay are helping with this project but a local contractor is heading it up. Joel is going to work pouring concrete with all the people from the village who are helping.

Joel and Jay are working on a deck and a mayan kitchen out by the pool: (There will be fireplace with a dutch oven swing and a cooking area all incorporated in one; right up Joel and Jays alley, they had way to much fun designing this one.) Here's the future bridge from the pool deck to the mayan kitchen in the trees, yes I said bridge again Joel and Jay had way to much fun with this one :)

Yesterday (Saturday) Jay and Myrtle and Sista and a bunch of kids came out for the day, it was so fun! They brought mangoes from the village (Sage was really excited about that):

Myrtle and Sista cooked up a bunch of yummy food:

Myrtle is always helping me come up with gluten free recipes cause she feels so bad we can't have flour :)  These were shark panades. We had never had shark and cooked up this way it was really good!

Lunch:

Sage had a blast having other kids to play with and the kids all had fun hanging out here.

The whole reason they came out was so we could have bible study here and I could be a part of it.  It was so nice of them and I'm so glad they came. We had wonderful fellowship. They are so encouraging to us and we are going to miss them SO much, they've become family. 

There's supposed to be a showing this week, and maybe another one this month, so we'll be getting ready for that, mostly making the beach look perfect.

Our new truck is running great, we are so grateful for that!

We still have no concrete plans about when we're coming back or exactly how that's all going to work out, but we know we'd like to visit all of our supporting churches and all of our supporters individually so we'll be contacting some of you about that once we have dates. Exciting!