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No pictures—bummer

Oh my goodness, I am so overdue on this blog! The main reason is that for some unknown reason we can no longer post pictures with the blog. So I will write a blog without pictures and hope that something is better than nothing. A couple of weeks ago we had a good friend from the states, Ginger, come and visit us here in Belize. Her first introduction to Belize began on a sour note because Customs confiscated her beef jerky. You would have thought they confiscated her first born child, she was so angry. Lol. She did loose 5 lbs while she was here, so maybe she really did need that jerky after all. Ginger jumped right into the work here teaching and working right along side us. You can see pictures of her in Belize if you go on my Facebook page. We had a very interesting spiritual encounter while she was here. Warning! This is not for the faint of heart. Consider yourself forewarned. On Ginger’s second to the last day here we decided to go the zoo. Our missionary friends from Gu...

A new platform

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One of our churches in the village of Santa Rosa are putting the touches on their new church. The men of the church extended the platform. As you can see, it is now in the shape of a semi circle rather than just straight across as it originally was. This new design looks very attractive. Good job men! They have also added new outhouse toilets at the back of the property. I wish I had a picture of the inside. These outhouse toilets actually have Real toilet seats! This makes us girls happy I can tell you! I have also included some pictures of a recent church service at Santa Rosa. The young women standing in the forground has a baby in the white sling that is slung over her back. Some churches have nails on the back of the seats to “hang” the baby up. We were at one church that had a hook from the ceiling to hang the slings from. The babies are very content in their slings. When it’s time to go home, mom just hooks the sling knot over her head with the baby hanging down her ...