Hey friends and family!

The past 2 weeks have been an exciting line-up of events taking place for the upcoming World Missions 101 Program and more importantly, for the upcoming bilingual DTS in September! Our national YWAM director, Clark, came up from Lima last weekend to go over some YWAM DTS principles and we started work on a massive preliminary budget plan for out staff and students. Praise God, we’ve gotten several inquiries about DTS for student applications coming from Ukraine, the U.S., Canada, Honduras, Peru, Colombia…and they are going to keep on coming! Please continue to pray for Latino staff to join us and for Nate, Edgar and Saulo who are discerning about joining our staff. The YWAM Cusco website is up and running: www.ywamcuzco.com. Soon it will be available in Spanish. Tell your friends.

In other news with renting a house, we haven’t been finding much in the newspapers these days. However last week, by an act of the Lord’s spontaneous creativity, our current landlord, Roque, called us and said that he and his wife are thinking about buying a piece of land (in our neighborhood) which already has an unfinished adobe house on the property and fixing it up. We had no idea that he was even thinking about that! We would love it if we could continue to rent from the guy that we already know and love. We’re not sure as to what condition the house is in, or what needs to be fixed, or if it will even be “move-in ready” come late August, but we are praying for a speedy process in finding out. Otherwise, we know that God will make it apparent if it’s not the right one for us (ex. we were 25 yards from the house we were going to look at this weekend, when the owner called and said someone bought it….obviously not the right one).

 

We love Roque! (& Dave Snyder, who we selfishly hope will come back to work with us in Peru)

On a fun, cultural note: to give you an idea of how time works in Peru, after 4 days of traveling back and forth to the Claro store (for a new phone plan) with Jordan, they finally were able to get new data plans. When we went to a printing shop this week to get the new YWAM Cusco receipt books printed, the guy said “come back in an hour.” We came back 2.5 hours later, after language class, and he was on a break. We called the phone number he left on the door and 30 minutes later he came back and started working on our order. I guess he meant “if you come back in an hour, then maybe I’ll start working on it.” When I went into town to meet a friend for coffee, 2 American guys were sitting near us and the 4 of us started talking about the “time difference”. You never think you have a “type-A personality of a New Yorker” until you leave the country (unless of course, you come from New York and you have a type-A personality; then you probably know it).

We hosted our good friends, Amauta and Jesus, for a “Great American Cook-Out” at our place. Turns out, pineapple-edam (a type of bland, white, cheese) burgers have mixed reviews. But the good thing was we talked for three hours, non-stop in Spanish about a hodgepodge of topics (success!). We even forced Amautita to tell a story in English and she did a great job! It was a mind-trip to be able to be so absorbed in her story about her student election campaign in high school because she only speaks Spanish around us and our brains were so enthralled (“Why can I understand EVERY word of what she’s saying?! It’s like she’s speaking English….oh wait, because she is!”). It was pretty awesome.  One day, we plan to road trip together—maybe we’ll start out small, like going to Pisac, but eventually we have dreams of traveling together to Mancora (the beach in northern Peru with the longest left wave in the world, for surfing), and then one day to tackle the Eastern coast of the U.S.

Taken off the internet, Mancora waves; in their amazing left-set glory! One day, I will be surfing this…

Lots of excitement and dreaming this week folks! Thank you guys for praying for 1. the WM101 and DTS students, 2. our Latino and gringo staff that will join us, and 3. our housing situation (either with Roque or someone else) before August. How can we be praying for you? Feel free to drop us a line or call us anytime. Dios te bendiga! Nosotros te amamos!