Hello There!!
Well we are settled in and staring to develop a routine!
There are new teams arriving here on the base all the time! There is a team of eight people here from Nashville that arrived yesterday, they are doing a full renovation on the kitchen and bathrooms in the main lodge. There is another couple and their family that arrived late last night, they are here to work with the Mission Adventures Ministry for approximately five weeks. There is also a couple and their family coming for the summer months to work with the ministry here as well!
Gayla is keeping very busy helping out in numerous areas! She has cleaned out and set up the little store here on the base and is over seeing its operation. This store is used by the teams that come and go as well as the base staff, the funds from the store help to offset some of the day to day costs of the base. She is also involved in helping with kitchen duties and with the children of the staff families, in future she plans to be helping with their school field trips and other day to day activities.
I have been doing numerous things over the weeks: fixing up and organizing the garage, fixing the bus, car, chain saws, lawn mowers, working on the property and getting it prepared for the teams that are coming, keeping the goats and chickens, building pens for the goats, etc...
It has been a long stretch since we have had a day to rest so we plan to take a few days off and go to a place called Guayabo, which is up towards the northern end of the country. We met a great fellow from there who invited us up for a visit if we could find the time. He works with a ministry that is called "Going the Distance", you can check out their web page at http://www.banyanresources.org/ , go to the Costa Rica Project tab. So if you are trying to contact us it may be difficult, we will attempt to check our e-mail as much as possible so please drop us a note! We are planning to be gone from Monday the 18th of June until Friday the 22nd of June.
Since the last post we have had two new additions to the goat family here! When I went out in the field to check on the goats and make sure that all was O.K., I found one of the Mama goats had just delivered a brand new kid! I was there just a couple minutes after the event and it was a great expierience getting the little one up and feeding. Two days earlier the same thing had happened, we went out to the field to check on the goats and there was a Mama with a new kid. Both of the new ones are doing fine!
We will update you when we get back, please keep the e-mails coming we look forward to every one of them!!
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