Frustrations with changed plans

Well, you think we would be used to it by now---- it seems that nothing here goes as planned or as promised. I won't go into the many, many examples we have had recently............. It's very different than it was in Brasil.

We did not get to meet with Pablo last Thursday at his home here in town either. (Remember we had to cancel the trip to the village he is from because the roads were so bad?) Thursday afternoon, John left the house to go meet with Pablo and the others and he was back in about 15 minutes. I thought maybe something had happened to them. It turns out the roads were flash-flooded and he could barely get through. The road Pablo lives on here in town is not a good one and he knew if he couldn't get through by our house he would not make it all the way to theirs.

It gets frustrating because every time we have it all planned out it gets changed.
But, John is gone this week and he will be back on Friday. We should not have any more trips to take for a long time, so we can actually settle in and work straight through. Now, don't hold me to that, because you know from one post to the next it can change drastically!!! LOL!

It will work. At least we have one great thing going for us-- we have a team and they do want to help. We have people to work on our stories. That right there is the key, so we're not discouraged. We did hope to have a couple of stories done by now though!

I'm sorry there's really not much to report here. I had hoped to have many details to give you by now. It will come with time.

On a side note, I had planned (once again "planned" being the key word) to study the new language a lot this week with John gone. I've had sick kids and a birthday in there. Faith had a bad cold and low-grade fever for about 4 days. Then Sunday I was a little sick and yesterday I was achy all day and felt lousy. Megan started running a fever last night. We had Levi's birthday right in the middle of that, so we tried to make his day special. I had hoped to rest more yesterday but that didn't happen. It looks like I'm on the 12-year plan to learn this language----Meggie should be getting out of school about then. HA! I'm doing good just to keep my head above water this week, so I'm not sure how much studying is going to take place.......... I'll try!