Celebrating the Steps

Allison spends time volunteering each week at an orphanage in town.  We have both gotten to know several of the families that work and live at the orphanage, and it has been an amazing blessing.  One of the families attends our church, and is the tica family we are probably closest to here.  The daughter of this family is named Wendy.  She is 17, and she wants to be an architect.  She has been spending time in the EMI office, learning from the architects there.  In order to get into the university here, a person has to pass up to 3 exams.  She has taken two of them, with the last one coming up the end of this month.  In honor of finishing two of the exams, we had a girls get-together at our house.  It was so fun.  We sat around talking....in Spanish of course, enjoying brownies and making tostadas.  I think sometimes I get carried away with pressing on towards the next accomplishment and finish line, but this past weekend was a great reminder to celebrate the steps, the process.  It was great to laugh alot and share Christian fellowship.  Please continue to pray for us as we deepen relationships with the tico community here in Atenas.