trip mail 7

Hermanos y Hermanas,
Well our time in San Jose is almost finished. We are off tommorrow to Guatemala and to the Casa Guatemala Orphanage in the city of Rio Dulce. It will be a full day of travelling and depending on the availability and price of emial in Rio dulce my email might be alot less frequent. (i hope not) We are definetly glad to be moving on, San Jose is beginning to wear us down. The noise and crazy drivers, and street merchants selling all kinds of incredibly useless trinkets at every area of human gathering. Perhaps the most difficult are the beggars every fifteen feet with out stetched hands and miserable looking bodies. Every twenty feet or so there they are. Last nigh we were stopped by 7 people who all had stories about why they needed money (they had been robbed or they need money for the bus to go home), One man yesterday told us how he despeately neede three dollars to fix his cars tire so he could deliver his bacteria to his veterinary lab, but the money we saw him spend on vodka at the bar would have easily paid for two or three new tires.

We look forward to the work atRio Dulce. Partly as a break form the insanity of this place and also because it is nice to to some work now and then (wandering around the city can be get old quick) I will probablly write in a few days to tell about how its going after I get a good idea about the place.

Yesterday we also got a tour of the oura vida centers and heard all the stories of success, its encouraging to hear about christians in other parts of the world doing their best to love god. Hopefully we will be able to meet more like minded people in Guatemala.

Also yesterday I sat down and figured out the rest of our trip and it is very exciting. We are almost halfway done but we still have so much ahead of us. Thanks for the prayers

Love you all,
Matt