I have to take a personal privilege and wish our daughter, Daphne, and her husband, Brad, a happy first wedding anniversary.  On one hand it is hard to believe it has been a year and then it seems it has been much longer.  At any rate, I hope they had a great day today!  I love you guys! 

We had a good day with some bumps in the road.  “Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape” is our motto and it has been tested today.  I realized after our devotional this morning that we were doing a village ministry tonight.  So, we had to change plans as far as our house building was concerned.  We built three more houses and cemented three others.  That was good! 

We bought the necessary food supplies for the village ministry and gathered what clothes we had to distribute.  We were on time until the muffler decided to literally fall off the truck and wrapped itself around some other part.  We went to plan B and loaded everyone into one van and the supplies in the other van.  Samuel Acan cut one of his fingers pretty severely while we were unloading the truck.  The third van was still in the village with the building team.  Raymond Wilkinson came and got another truck and all was well.  The distribution of the food and clothes went well as we saw 294 folks.  A local pastor preached and we had a good night. 

I left the village and went to pick up Pastor Max Lara’s family for supper.  I cut too short coming out of their garage and shattered one of the back side windows while putting a few scrapes on the van too.  How stupid is that?  Oh well, I get to go into Guatemala City early in the morning to exchange vehicles because the glass is falling out. 

I got back to the house around 7:30PM and Caroline Ford is not happy because the dry beans are not done.  She says they are hard.  So, supper has been delayed. 

However, God has given us a wonderful weather day and it really couldn’t have been more perfect for the village ministry.  We were in a very small church building and it would have been impossible to put all the folks inside if the rains had come.  God is good! 

To the person who e-mailed me today with a confidential prayer request, please know that I am praying.  Let me know the end results of that situation.

I have gotten several e-mails from members of the Friendship family telling me that the services went well yesterday.  That is good to know. 

Lord willing, I will be back with another entry tomorrow night.  Pray for us!