Thank you for your prayers...I'm adjusting quite well this time around & things are going great! we had a short term team (mostly form Westgate Chapel) at El Hogar for a almost 2 weeks which was an enormous blessing. Spiritual crops were tended to & new seeds were sown, the playground was built, & relationships were started/strengthened, but above all else God was worshipped :) These are a few pics of pastor Bill preaching, the new home, the existing home, the playground in progress, & Elly & Emmy w/ our Christmas dinner.

Please continue to pray for David & Matias (the 2 new teenage boys), the fruit in their lives is abundant...pray that it keeps flourishing. Also i ask that you joint me in prayer for Cristofer, a suicidal 16 year old boy from up the street we've decided to take in. Love yall, miss yall.

I landed safe last night & am @ Ernie & Tina Dueck(the missionaries from Westgate Chapel)'s house in Montevideo until tomorrow morning when Ernie will take me to El Hoger (the children's home i'll be living at). getting my phone situation settled is more complicated than i thought, but i'll get something sooner or later. i was worried for a while earlier today because my laptop wouldn't charge for any longer than a minute. i asked some friends for ideas, then went for a walk. when i got back a friend had sent me the solution :) God is good!

on a more disturbing note, when i went for my walk, i went through a park i've been though numerous times...but never @ night. prostitution is legal here so i'm not sure why the park is the preferred spot for it, but there were plenty of male &/or female hooks & their pimps along the street that goes through the park. i'll spare the details but, advertising of all sorts is also very legal..apparently :( this was a gross & troubling experience. pray for this nation!