The week has been busier than usual, with the team arriving and Jordan coming back.  Praise the Lord for peanut butter and the camera cable (you may have noticed the dramatic increase in photos)! Our Thanksgiving was very good. We took off from school that day and cooked up a feast (including: green bean casserole  baked chicken, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole  cooked carrots, salad, apple cider, bread, and for dessert included apple pie, peach pie, cupcakes, pumpkin pie, ice-cream and candy corn.)  We also celebrated an international day of thanks with Canadians, Americans, a Peruvian (Corbin Allen), a Norwegian and a Dutchman. This Thanksgiving we are especially thankful for not only good food and friends that made it like family, but for each and every one of you guys! We were able to Skype our families too, which was lovely.

We found out that there is a YWAM conference in Leticia, Colombia in 2 weeks that our leaders wanted us to pray about attending.  It is the regional conference for YWAM Peru, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador and is focusing on “Transforming Families to Impact Generations.”  We have thought about it and want to talk to Clark Barnard (our national YWAM director for Peru) about logistics when he comes next Saturday. So far we haven’t felt God telling us “no” so as of now, we are in! The conference is scheduled for Dec. 8-12th.

Today was a fun filled day of adventure with our tutor, Jimmy and his family.  His entire family rented a bus and invited us to visit Senor de Huanca (a holy site visited annually by Peruvian Catholics).  It is the place people visit to have their mode of transportation blessed. It was about an hour away from Cusco in the mountains and it was gorgeous!  Picture stepping into “The Sound of Music.” We got a chance to tour the grounds, attend a mass and have lunch by a river.  Jimmy has a lovely family and we are so grateful to have spent a perfect Sunday morning/afternoon with them.

A photo of the mountains on the way…

David and I at Senor de Huanca