Kinkajous and 4-eyed Opossums

Last week we finished up building, staining and filling an 8’x4’x2’ cabinet for storage in the office. We spent a day helping organize the office and cleaning. 

We are currently working on planning a skate contest and possibly some sort of hygiene day. We had a donation of toys, sunglasses, hairbrushes and toothbrushes. And another donation of skateboards and accessories. So, we have plenty of prizes for the contest... and I am thinking for the hygiene day, to have a local dentist come and talk about dental hygiene. It has been fun seeing people we know every time we are out. 

In English class this week, we looked at a children’s dictionary and had fun practicing sentence together. They are finally getting brave enough or trusting enough to try English out loud. The boys love to make sentences about each other... we even found a couple of sentences in the book with their names in it! They are such hams. I have about 3 or 4 consistent students... Oscar and Carlos, Fabian and Marlin. They are fun boys. 

Sunday school was fun too. We talked about kindness (amabilidad) and the many ways we can show kindness. Sunday school is usually 5 girls (ages 6-10) and 2 little boys (4 and 6). It gets a little chaotic bc it is a somewhat bilingual class. Everyone speaks either a little English or a little Spanish.... or our visiting friends from the UK who are left in confusion speak only English... nonetheless we are surviving, and I think the application is sinking in :-) Thankfully, we have a bilingual Bible! This week we will be learning about goodness. 

The weather has been nice... about 4 days of sunshine and then a rainy day or two. Perfect ratio right now :-) Today is sunny... we have seen a couple of new animals this week... (so fun exploring God's creation) one at church on Thursday night... two kinkajou where gathering fruit from one of the trees, they were precious, we sat and “spotlighted” them for about 10 minutes... super noisy and somewhat social... we did not know what it was at first. It looked like a cat/monkey/squirrel. Very interesting. The other new animal is a type of opossum. We saw it running on the power line at our house while we were cooking dinner Monday night... we thought it was a ferret at first, but our landlord told us opossum and sure enough we googled it and found it. Here are some pictures we found online of the two animals: 

Kinkajou

We are excited to have my parents visit us. We get to take a day off and go pick them up in San Jose next week.   We are excited to share what we have been doing with them and have their encouragement to spur us on for our last month here. 

We are praying and thinking about the next steps on our journey with more urgency everyday. Please pray divine wisdom and insight for us. 

FYI: The Mt. Chicken has been seen but thankfully not heard as of late!!!!