Today is the start of the school year in Guatemala. Yuliza’s students arrived for the first time, and Elias headed back to his high school for his final year.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Otto takes the Office
The elections in the United States are starting to heat up, but here in Guatemala they’re finishing. Guatemala’s new president, Otto Perez Molina, was sworn into the office over the weekend. Concerns about the increase in violence in the country due to the drug trade ruled the elections, easily overshadowing the problems with poverty, the economy and education. So Otto, a retired general, won easily.
Please pray for Guatemala. The only true solution to the problems in Guatemala is God, so please ask Him to bring peace to our country!
Elias’s Birthday
Yesterday was Elias’s 21st birthday!
He got some of his favorite foods: fried chicken and tres leches cake! He’s been living with us for a little over a month now, and it was lots of fun to celebrate his birthday with him.
Please keep Elias in your prayers this year! He will be finishing up high school and deciding what to do next, so it’s a very important time for him. We’re very happy to have him in our house, and we pray that we can continuously love him with God’s love, point him to Christ, and live lives that are an example to him.
December in Guatemala
Happy New Year!
December has been a very busy month. We returned from a vacation, and Elias moved in to live with us. Then a bunch more came over to celebrate Christmas and the New Year with us. It’s been a really fun time having our home full of people.
Here are our blog posts for December:
- December Newsletter
- Back in Guatemala
- Elias now lives with us!
- Christmas Party
- Merry Christmas!
- Our Second Anniversary!
- Thank you for your support in 2011!
Here are our prayer requests for January:
- Prayer for Elias as he adjusts to life with us and as he starts his final year of high school in about a week.
- We hope to finally break ground on our land this month. I’m going to be pretty busy getting everything organized for the construction.
- Yuli has been offered a position at a nearby Christian school to teach in the mornings. We’re happy about this opportunity because she really enjoys teaching, and I’m going to be more occupied with construction details this year. It will also help cover a small portion of our monthly expenses.
Thank you so much for your prayers for us this past month! We are very grateful for all of the prayers and support that we receive. It’s a very exciting time for us as we start the halfway house. And we need your prayers that we can clearly hear God’s will for our lives.
Brent & Yuliza