A Great Weekend!

We went to a new place this weekend!! We took a two hour shuttle/van ride to a place called Panajachel! We had a great RELAXING weekend there. On saturday we took a little boat to a small village called San Marcos and found a nice little hotel where we ate lunch and laid out on a beach! It was exactly what the two of us needed. It was an amazing weekend!

Over the past several weeks of being here Jessica and I have stepped out of our comfort zones quite a few times and have learned how to put our trust in the Lord. I just wanted to share how he has shown himself to us with you guys...Every weekend we try to find something a little different to do or something to get us to venture out and explore a little more. Everytime we do this we rely on our faith in the Lord to see us through and keep us safe. On that note every weekend we have been here we have met someone new who has either gone out of their way to help us get where we need to go or to befriend us or someone the Lord sent to us to just lift our spirits and be a light to us. For example, this weekend we ventured out on our own truly for the first time since we've been here, every other time we've had a little help from steve and pam or one of the teachers here, but this weekend we had to find our own transportation and our own ways and skills on how to get us where we were going and how to get back to La Senda safely. On the shuttle ride down to Panajachel we met a woman who had been before to Pana and was telling us all about it on our way up to it. When we got there we weren't sure on where we were going to be staying we had checked a few places out and just hadn't made a complete decision this woman took us to the hotel we were staying and got us a room and made sure we were ok before departing us. The next day we weren't sure how to get where we needed to for the boats to get to the other villages and we coincidentally bumped into the same woman on the side of the street and instead of just pointing us to the way we needed to go she took us all the way to the docks, put us on the boat we needed, and then stood there and waited for us to take off to make sure we were ok and was still standing there waving as we turned around when we were taking off. It has just amazed me at the way God has put people into our lifes to make it that much easier and stressfree on us!

The new couple is going to be arriving tomorrow! They are a young newlywed couple who are coming to teach here also for three months so keep these guys in your prayers! Hope all is well with everyone back home! Thank you again for all the continuing love and support and i will see everyone very soon!