Antigua, Guatemala

 Antigua, Guatemala

Like a Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Rain Forest

 

Between Xela and the coast, as the road winds quickly down to sea-level, you can stop by the side of the road and drink in this beautiful location.

Coffee plantations on either side.  There is a zip-line near by.

It starts getting stickey and hot.

Beautiful.  Green and Lush.

~J

Heritage Mission Team Reunion

 We had a quick Heritage reunion with several of the team members who were recently in Guatemala on a school team.

Check our my recent blog about their Summer trip to Guatemala.
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And of course we had to go to Luchenbach, Texas.

Let's go to Luckenbach, Texas
With Waylon and Willie and the boys.

~J

Cowboys Training Camp

While traveling through San Antonio, we stopped off at the AlamoDome and watched 4 hours of the Dallas Cowboys practices,  FREE.  We only had to pay $10.00 to park.

It was fun to see the pattern of the team practice, both offense and defense.
Go Cowboys!

BFF

Last month, while co-workers, Bob and Shirley (my BFF:) were in town for SETECA, we took the afternoon to show them the nice mall, Oakland.  McCafé wasn't too bad either.

Then several weeks later, we visited them in their home in South Texas, so they took us to South Padre Island so I could stick my big toe in the water.  Well, I didn't stick my toe in the water, but I stuck it in the sand!  That was enough for me.
~J

Yellow Flower

  

Found:  In my Garden!

Good Samaritan

It was about 7am in the morning, a couple of weeks ago, when Glenn and I were walking in our small neighborhood.  One of the Guatemalan ladies was out by her car and it needed a "jump start".  Glenn walked  home, got the jumper cables and helped start her car.

2 days later, she brought this cute CHOCOLATE bar

in the form of pliers.

How cute is that?  

It was her way of saying

"Thank You!"

The chocolate was delicious.

check out their website at

Cake Gallery

~J

Front of Las Buenas Nuevas

 I love the Street sign on the wall in Panajachel.

The sign reads 

"Street - Good News!"

With construction coming along, the green tin dividers were taken down so now the beautiful stone work is showing.  

I love this place.

~J

Passport and David

When Luke and Ellen drove us to the airport to leave last week, I couldn't resist taking a picture of sleeping David with my boarding pass and passport.  
He was sound asleep when we gave him our last hug.

Perhaps he'll love to travel like her Grammie and come see me in Guatemala some day. :)

~J

David's Blue Blanket

David fast asleep

29 years ago, GrandMommy made a blue blanket for Ellen (her 3rd grandchild). 

I've kept it all these years. 

I used it with all 3 of my kids.

 So now, little David is being swaddled by the

same

blanket his mom was

swaddled in back in 1982.

~Grammie

David + Water = Sleep

Last week, we spent 4 days and 3 nights at the Nicaraguan coast celebrating Ellen's 29th birthday and GrandDad's 56th birthday.

Glenn was holding Baby David and he fell right to sleep!

Later in the evening we went out into the Pacific Ocean.

 

First Things First

First Bath

Soooooooooooooo Content 

during David's First Bath

First outing at 

Pops Ice cream

First Doctor's Visit

Weighing in at

7 pounds - only 1 week old.

Little David gained 4 oz. in 1 week
~Grammie

Little David

GrandDad and I arrived recently into Managua, Nicaragua to spend a few days with our new

Grandson

named

David Luke.

All I can say is that he is a very good baby.

He sleeps all the time, he barely cries and he loves to be held!

Any advice for us being New Grandparents is welcomed!
~J

A Few Days in Panajachel

The Richmond family from DC, were down for a few weeks.  We introduced them to different folks who could share about their different ministries in Guatemala.  They were able to explore Monterrico at the coast, climb Volcano Pacaya, play with the Foote kids in Santiago, zip-line through the rain forest, study a week or two at the language school, attend several birthday parties, volunteer at Casita Benjamin and many other activities.

So how do we know the Richmonds?  I just love to see how the Lord puts these things together.

In 1992,at the recommendation of Northwest Bible Church mission pastor, Karen travels down to Bolivia to see what missions is all about.  We fell in love with her and have appreciated her friendship through the years.  Gary and I flew up to her wedding in Dallas, 1993.

Fast Forward.  Karen's mentor from College days, wants to minister in Guatemala so, Karen introduces us to Sheri and Kevin.  In 2009 Kevin and Shari bring their 4 kids with them to Guatemala and minister with the Footes out at the lake.  In 2010 both Shari's family and Karen's family come to Guatemala to hold optical clinics out at the lake and also take Spanish classes.

It gets better....

Shari introduces us to the Richmonds, so they were able to have a good Guatemala Experience here while studying Spanish at the same time.

God is good!
~J

Heritage Mission Team

Recently, we helped to coordinate and host a group of young people (mainly those in David's Spanish class) from Heritage School in Fredericksburg, Texas on a 10 day
Mission Exposure Adventure trip.
  Glenn traveled with the team for 10 solid days as they had a glimpse of different ministries here in Guatemala.

The Team ministered in Casita Benjamín.

They also traveled out to Lake Atitlán and heard about Bible Translation with the Foote family, visited a local city jail here in Guatemala City and visited the City Dump.

Thank you Heritage School for your ministry here in Guatemala.  We trust you were able to sense God's presence, fall in love with the Guatemalans and walk away with a deeper walk with the Lord.  

~J