One Week In

A little over two weeks ago I was swinging in a hammock in our little room in Salvatierra. It was 95 degrees outside and the wind was stirring up the dust on our dirt floor as the kids napped in their tents. A chicken walked through to see what he might find on the ground. Outside I heard a wild horse run by and a pig scurried out of the way. A Guarayo woman walked past with a basket of firewood strapped to her forehead. I remember thinking, two weeks from today I’ll be in Texas. It didn’t seem real at the time but it did happen and we are here.

We’ve been home for one week and we are still adjusting. We’ve really enjoyed spending time with family and are looking forward to visiting my parents and our church there this weekend. It has been great to see our kids play with their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Church Sunday was really overwhelming, but we were excited to see everyone and to thank them for setting up this amazing house we are staying in.

We’re trying to catch up on all the technology. I didn’t know DVD players were so 2010. Who knew that not only can we download movies now but we watch most of our TV shows streaming from the Internet. The house we are in is a little bit out in the country. Well, everybody keeps saying, you guys are just so far out there. But to me it is a place where it is far enough from the Interstate that you can’t hear the traffic but is only 7 minutes from the nearest Target store. I call that perfection. Anyway, everybody keeps saying that the only Internet we can get is so slow. We think it is so fast that we don’t know what to do with ourselves. And even though it is so much slower than everybody else’s, we can still watch TV using it and download a file that would have taken us hours in Bolivia. We are pretty happy about the changing technology.

We are still exhausted and trying to de-stress. So please pray that we would be able to do that and recharge a little.

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