Our house

We thought today would be a good day to show everybody what our house looks like. It's a fairly large house and that is good when you have five active little girls. There are three floors to the house. The first floor has the living room, kitchen, half bathroom and office. The second floor has four bedrooms and three bathrooms (again, something that's very needed with so many girls in the home). The bottom floor has a sauna room that is not functional and is being used for storage, a recreation room for little girls' toys and a laundry area. The house does not have an internal air-conditioning or heating unit. During mornings and evenings, it gets quite cool. Thus, we have an incredible amount of layers of blankets on our beds. Unfortunately, the roof leaks on the house and we have electrical problems but we are grateful to be living where we we do; the view from this mountain perch is incredible.
Yesterday, we had extensive meetings with our colleagues the Ruiz to plan, somewhat, the next little while. It has become quite clear to us that 1. because the church is not ready to become fully independent and 2. the camp/ retreat centre is still under construction, we will not be able to begin church planting for a while. Marcel will be helping the church develop a constitution and show them how to run an effective meeting. Hopefully by this time next year, the church will be led by national leadership. While we finish the other work, we will educate ourselves about church planting here and do more language acquisition.
Today was a half day at school for the girls. Tonight Brittany is going to a youth meeting and tomorrow I'm taking her and a friend to the Artisan Market to let her buy some gifts.