November 12. 2013
Dear Friends, We are (im)patiently waiting to get a phone line to be able to communicate with you. Our neighbor has permitted us to "borrow" his Internet today to get you this update. Here, you must have a number (a phone line) in order to do business with the phone company. We passed the line over to our neighbor before leaving since we did not need a year's worth of phone bills for nothing. For more than 10 days, our neighbors have not had access to the Internet, so we likewise have been stuck. Everything is falling in place to have our own connection, but in Latin America, nothing is "today." Add the fact that we are out of town about twenty minutes and all that process doubles. We have enjoyed getting back with the deaf and seeing that they have carried on in our absence. The only thing we have noted is true lack of leadership. Many are just floating along, happy in the Lord, but not doing anything more. The church is in bad need of repairs and