Yeah it has been awhile since I last updated you all, I'm sorry about that! I don't want you to think that I take you for granted or that your prayers and help don't mean the world to me. In fact without your prayers and help I wouldn't have much to write about, but because you all have been so helpful I have been able to do a good bit of living in the past month. So here is the Readers Digest version of what has happened since my last post.
Part of what was stolen when I was robbed was Decembers grocery and gas money. Because of that loss I had to use other money, that I had saved for a flight to Costa Rica to spend Christmas with Jone and her family, to live. Which of course really depressed me and Jone both. But, due to the generosity of one of my supporters, I was given the money that had been stolen and was able to buy a last minute ticket to CR and celebrate that time of year with Jone and her family. Her family is huge by the way!!!! Both her father and mother have 9 siblings. Also on both sides are around 30 cousins. Which makes 78 or so names that I'm going to have to learn!!! We both had a great time and are still extremely great full for God's provision!!!!
We also had 2 great work teams come during this past month and a half. With the teams from Danville and Cincinnati Christian University we were able to get a bunch of work done on the multipurpose building in Punta Cana, and fix some electrical issues in the church buildings in Higuey and La Romana, and hold a 4 day pastors conference for the pastors of all the Christian churches here in the DR. It was work much needed and well received.
Now during all this activity and travel I found out that I had to move residences. After the robbery of my apartment the same gentlemen decided to return a couple days later and break in to the house above my apartment. Since I wasn't sleeping all that well I heard the footsteps above and woke up and turned on the lights. When I did so, I heard what sounded like someone jumping off the balcony and running away. They left in such a hurry that they left one of the cell phones that they stole from me on their previous visit (my state side cell phone, honestly the more important of the two). Because of this second robbery in the same fashion as the first my friends above decided to move somewhere a bit more secure, which left me without a place (unless I wanted to pay around $400 a month instead of $150 for the same space).
So I started looking for a new place to live when Jone came to visit on January 9th. It was a race from the beginning and I was crazy stressed about it. I didn't have time to start looking until the 9th and had to be out of my apartment by the 20th. That doesn't leave much time to let the wheels move here in the DR. We found a place rather easily, but we had to fight to move in quickly and I'm still fighting to get the power turned on. And "lucky" for me no power means no water either. I do have a well that is full of water, but it is a bit weird having to get your own water and reading by oil lamp. All in all it has worked out pretty well and I am happy with how things are going in life and work.
Here's to getting lights sometime soon!!!
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