In the past 2 weeks, we are resting and getting ready for the next Brisbane team coming at the end of this month. We are doing a lot of “behind the scenes” work to get ready. We also have finished language school  and instead of going every day for four hours, we want to continue to practice with Jimmy and Amauta for 1 hour each every week. To celebrate 3 months of hard schooling, Jordan and Joy treated us to dinner at this posh, organic, gourmet restaurant called Sara’s. Highly recommend.  Our final “test” was to watch “The Lion King” in Spanish without subtitles to see how much we could pick up.

We were going to take the next two weeks to collect all the necessary paperwork for our residency process, but this week we found out that the organization that we were planning to go with has lost its credentials and ability to grant anymore residencies after this coming week.  We talked to our friend, Eric, who has just recently gotten his residency through a Baptist church in Lima. It is this church’s ministry to help other missionaries get their residencies through a non-Catholic visa (which the government is making it harder for missionaries to obtain).

Please be praying for our residency process that things will run smoothly and quickly and for God to be in our conversation with the lawyers and church.  Also pray for us to be able to rest this month until the new team arrives, and for Jen’s health.

We love you all! Thanks for all of your prayers and encouragement!