It´s time to start my Jalapeño peppers indoor! Our friends Tom and Jeanne, sent me this fantastic seed catalog and offered to send me seeds. I chose 2: peppers and kale (see photo). These peppers are extra large and good for canning, which is my intention. Since hot peppers and not available in Spain, I [...]
We scrimped and saved for this meal to share with our friends and it was worth it! Here are some photos below. It was an American Thanksgiving with a few splashes of Spain added.
15 of our best-est Spanish & Brazilian buddies came to the house.
Saturday October 17th, 2009 was an important day in Spain. An estimated 2 million people and 600 buses from all over Spain, came to protest and rally against the proposed right to abort babies. John and I were blessed being there to see and participate in the strong objection to this evil practice. Our prayer [...]
We struggled with wanting to attend this year and the price to go but were sure glad we did! This retreat was our best yet and John and I had a great time. Here are some photos of our 3 day retreat in Yerbena, Spain… close to Toledo.
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Finally after one full month of waiting, we are able to access our funds. Imagine that you got paid today, April 7th but you were not able to cash your check until May 7th! Well, that is what we are now subject too in Spain… a one month holding of funds. Praise the Lord [...]
Blessings for this week are:
Tuesday March 10th, 2009-
Our friends brought us 4 huge croissants to eat with our breakfast
A friend emailed asking if we needed any vegetable seeds…thank you Angie!!
A family of 4 in Northern Spain will come and use our guesthouse for 5 days in April! It’s a welcome blessing in these hard economic [...]
Here are some more photos of the recent visit from Greg, Abigail and Preston. Jesseka and 2 year old William stayed home in Chicago. Please click on the photo to enlarge it.
We are very thankful to the Lord for the blessings of family.
We arrived back to Madrid to a whirlwind of activities and news. One of the ladies in our church had 2 of her sisters die in one week. Then the news of Evelyn who died from ovarian cancer at the age of 33. Apparently she didn’t know she had it and when she finally [...]
Last Saturday I gave a little cooking class for 4 pre-teens; Marta, Lucia, Sylvia and Hannah from our church. These sweet young ladies were a blessing to have and I had such a good time with them. Two of them went straight home and made muffins for their families and Sunday they asked me [...]
This is where we are working in the village. Our house is in the background. Click on the photos to for larger views.
This is an example of the Nossa Fala New Testament we are working on.
John and our good friend John S. last September checking out some ruins in the Extremadura area.
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