SETTLING IN AND ENJOYING MEXICO |
October 7, 2006
Greetings all!
Thank you for your continued prayers! We are doing well as we adjust and adapt to our new home here in Mexico, even if it feels like we keep lurching along two steps forward and one step back. The house is finally furnished and all the appliances are working! We have also started attending a local church and have started Spanish classes. The next task seems to be adjusting to 3 kids in school and coordinating their educational needs. With the first month of school lost by our late arrival, there is a lot of catching up to do. Socially they are adjusting very well, making friends at school and playing with the neighborhood kids in the evenings, but getting caught up with their classmates has been more of a challenge. We would really appreciate your prayers in this.
Our house and location have already been answers to prayer. It is a brand new, two-story, 3 bedroom house in a safe neighborhood with lots of friendly neighbors. In many ways living here is much like Venezuela, but there are differences. One particularly pleasant difference is that the Mexican accent is much easier to understand. One particularly unpleasant difference is that many of the seemingly random speed bumps are not well marked. (Our van is doing well, but I think it has received a years worth of driving stress in less than one month!)
One bit of culture exposure we would have rather avoided has been locating the local hospital and how to get medical treatment. Last week Benjamin tried a new trick on the monkey bars at school, fell, and broke his left arm. Not too serious, but he will need a cast from bicep to hand for 4 weeks. He now knows how to answer the question “what happened to your arm,” in Spanish. And even his school teacher, Miss Warren, has used his injury as an opportunity to teach compassion and sympathy for others’ physical limitations by having the students eat lunch one day with only one hand. And as for Benjamin, his good attitude hasn’t slacked a bit; always amazing us with his flexibility and joyful spirit. He is an example to us, as we face the changes God has led us through this last month.
James 1:2-4 says “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything”. |
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