July 26

We woke up this morning to this guy, passing by on the other side of the street. Mind you we live just 2 blocks from the center of town. Who knows where he came from.

The bay was very calm this morning as we went over to bid our FRPC friends goodbye around 8 am. We were able to spend some time in prayer with them before they left..

Everyone seemed ready to get going and I'm sure that as I write this, they are enjoying long hot showers or are already in their own little beds fast asleep.

Around 10:00 we headed to Belize City with Carla to pick up Alvaro and Elsa, who were flying home from St. Louis at 2:45. Being a couple hours early we passed by the airport and had a nice lunch at the Biltmore, Best Western Hotel and did a little shopping at Brodies, the SuperWalmart of Belize. Arriving at the airport around 2:15, we walked into the terminal to find Miguel and Omar sitting there (they were the guys who drove the team to the airport on the PDS Bus). We asked them what they were still doing there - their response, "We've waited here to pick up Alvaro and Elsa." Alvaro had asked them a week before he left if they would be picking up another team today. Since their answer was "No more teams this year," Alvaro had assumed they wouldn't want to wait 4 hours for them to come in, so had made arrangements with us to pick he and Elsa up. Miguel and Omar had assumed he wanted them to wait for him.


Needless to say, they headed back to Corozal with an empty bus and we went to watch for the plane to arrive. Mario, an elder at Alvaro's church in San Narciso, and also a teacher at Concepcion School just happened to be arriving on the same plane as Alvaro and Elsa. He was on his way home from a month of math training in Korea. So we had a fun time waiting with his family- his wife Nela, three beautiful daughters, and his parents, a brother and a cousin.

When we reached San Narciso with Alvaro and Elsa, we found he had no car to go over to Patchakan to pick up their three boys, so we drove them on to Patchakan. And after dropping them off we decided to stop and visit the Vallejos family, and it was after 6 when we arrived back in Corozal. The day didn't end there, but I am rambling.

Tomorrow will be our last full day in Belize. Dale will be preaching at Cristo Rey at 5 and San Narciso at 6:30.