Never boring....

Whee! Since my last post, we've taken 18 more days of Spanish lessons, ridden the KLR 650 15 of those days (plus a couple of extra trips) and felt like the wind was going to blow us away more than once. We have trees that are well over 50 ft. tall all around us, and they sway like there is nothing to stop them from falling over.  In some cases, they do fall. On the way home  from church today (we had the mission pickup, as the wind was gusting well over 40 mph) we came around a curve to cars stopped in the road. A tree had fallen onto the power lines and snapped a power pole in two. The tree, the power lines and the pole were all in the road. One lane was completely blocked, and the other was partially blocked. As we were waiting to take our turn at skirting the debris, the lines arced together and exploded, not once, but twice. The vehicle that was two places ahead of us hit reverse in a hurry!  We cautiously skirted the debris, and saw the police arriving as we went around the next curve in the road. Had it been any longer, we might not have gotten through for several hours.

I know we've described the power situation here many times...but it is flat scary! They pull the lines by hand, and if a new meter is installed, the line is just strung along all the others, and across, and on top of....so entertaining. Power outages are common here...I wonder why! :)  The power was out when we got home today from the tree falling...even though that happened several miles away.

We are busy with our Spanish lessons. No one ever told me learning a new language in my forties was going to be this hard! We are both making good progress though. Vocabulary is more a case of memorization, and the structure? Don't get me started. I will learn it though. I have to in order to do the work God has called us to do here in Guatemala.

I think I hear the oven calling me...chicken enchiladas tonight. YUM! I'm gathering typical recipes from Guatemala now...look out...you may find that I ask you to buy a cookbook! :)

God Bless y'all!  Keep us in your prayers, and if you are able to contribute financially to the work we are doing here in Guatemala, please go to www.mvi.org/donations fill in the appropriate information, and then click the field coordinator box and write in "Rileys" in the blank.

We love and miss y'all bunches!
Lisa