Cultural Frustrations, Spiritual Growth and Some Special Time with Micaiah

Cultural Frustrations

Shortly after arriving in Peru, our floor on the first floor of our home (we have been blessed with an awesome house) started coming up due to humidity. After a couple of attempts to repair spots where it was coming up we finally cave and decided to have a professional come in. Here's what has happened:

• Entire wood floor torn up on the promise that they will be done in a week.
• The floor people realize our problem is poor concrete.
• Concrete people take up 5 cm. of concrete and put 5 cm of new concrete down.
• Concrete people tell us tat this adds 4 days to the initial week.
• Floor people assure us that it won't and they will be here to lay the floor in 2 days.
• 2 days comes and the floor people tell us they want to wait 2 more days to let the concrete dry more.
• 2 more days pass and the floor people tell us they want to wait another week.
• We tell the floor people that we are having a baby in a few ays and if they wait another week they can't come back for a month and will not get money for a month.
• The floor people say they will come the next day.
• The floor poeple don't show up.
• Dena calls the floor people ad very politely tells them if they don't come today they shouldn't bother to come back.
• They are coming this afternoon... I hope.

Spiritual Growth

I feel like I am growing in my spiritual life lately more than normal. I know I have a relationship I need to try and correct, but other than that I feel like I have really been learning and getting guidance in a lot of situations form the Lord.

I am also very happy with a meeting we had yesterday about the Young Adult group we work with. There are some big changes coming there that will not be easy and at first, probably not very attractive, but we think that we will see some awesome things happen as a result. More on that after we meet with the Pastor.

Some Special Time with Micaiah