Friends...Finally!

Our first month in Antigua was pretty rough without any friends here. We prayed that God would help us to find people that we could connect with here and I know that people back at home were praying, too. Thank you! God has faithfully blessed us with several new friendships. We wrote before about the 19 year-old intern with NLCH, Emily, who has been studying here with us in Antigua for the past five weeks. She will be here another week before returning to the children's home. It has been so nice to have her here with us!

Last Sunday, a lady named Patsy, who is in her 70s and is working with New Life in Nicaragua, started language school in Antigua. We have really enjoyed getting to know her. Daniel, Emily, Patsy, and I all had dinner together last night which was a lot of fun. Actually... Daniel was a little bored with the conversation of three women!

On Saturday night, a family (pictured below) from our school invited us over to their apartment for dinner. What a blessing! We had a wonderful AMERICAN dinner, played Skip-Bo, and talked for several hours. They are a very sweet family from Chicago who just entered the mission field to do street ministry in Northern Mexico. They will be studying at our school until March!