Sunday Reflections

Today was our second Sunday here in Trinidad. As I was traveling with my family to services I got to thinking about some of the different things here versus in the U. S. In America most families (including us) have more than one vehicle. But not here. This is how today went. We all got ready to go to services and instead of going down stairs and getting in a van, we went out of our gate and started walking. We walked for oh, maybe a quarter of a mile (maybe more) to the round-a-bout. There we hardly waited any and flagged down a Maxi Taxi. We all piled in and rode to the building, paid our fare and had a wonderful worship time with the brethren.

That has become normal for us every time we want to go anywhere that we can’t walk. We are planning on getting a vehicle that will transport us, but I am thankful for this time of non-independent transportation. It really makes one count the blessing of having your own transportation. I know that there are some people here that have to travel everywhere they go just the same way as we did this morning. Knowing this makes me appreciate having a car (or more than one) of my own in a different way. We are all so blessed. Yet sometimes we don’t even know it.

So, as you ride around in your car, be thankful you are among the blessed of this world that has one.

On a totally different note, we are all settled in now and school has started for the younger ones. We are getting into the swing of going to the open market and getting our weekly veggies and some of our meat. We still have to go to High-Lo to get milk, butter and other various items. We have had the pleasure already to have some guests in our home. We hope that will continue even more so in the months to come. I have personally enjoyed the time of reuniting with old friends that I have not seen in many months or even years.

In the next week or so I hope to start my garden and do some planting of plants in our many pots, inside and out. We have been enjoying limes from our tree and I’m hoping that we will plant a Paw Paw (Papaya)) tree as well. I hope to post some pictures of our house and yard this week.

Have a great day! =)

Out with the old, in with the new.

(This was written last Wednesday the 10th of Nov. Posting is a bit late due to some internet problems.)

I have not blogged in a long time. My reason? Well I could say that I was too busy (and it would be true) but I use that for far too many excuses. So the real reason is that we have moved. Yep. We did. And it was not across town, or within the state, or even within the U.S. It was across the ocean to a small Island named Trinidad. The nation is actually called The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. There are two islands one is Trinidad (the larger one) and Tobago (the smaller one). We are located at the bottom of the chain of the Caribbean Islands. We are actually really close to Venezuela, South America. It warm here all year long as we are only about ◦10 off the equator.

We arrived yesterday after 3 flights that went really well. I’m now sitting in my new living room typing this and listening to all the new sounds that I have to learn what are.

Our house is really nice. We have plenty of room for all our stuff (or we hope so) and today we plan on unpacking some things. There is a nice kitchen, a dining room and living room area, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a sink area outside the hall bath, a computer/school/study room and a back porch. There is also a down stairs area that is where the cars are stored and also a bathroom (that needs a lot of work). We have a small garden area, a lime tree and some other small trees that we’ll have to figure out what are. The house came with two dogs, Cheyenne and Buster. Cheyenne is part Doberman and part German Shepherd and Buster is…is Buster. He is a random mix of something. (I’ll have pictures soon so come back and check again.)

I hope to Blog often about this new chapter in my life. This is such an exciting time! I have always wanted to live in Trinidad and also be in the mission field. I’m looking forward to this time and hope that I can help one person get to heaven.

Stay tuned!