Missionary Conference at Victory Baptist

Our church just finished their annual missionary conference, it was an awesome weekend!

The waiting line for the...
the food on the table

Our missionary families

Kangaroos

No, we are not in Australia, although that would be awesome!!

Instead our children are the kangaroos...for the all churches olympics Abigail and Ben won first place in their age groups. Jacob got 3rd place. Ben really had to work for his 1st place, he had to jump several times against a good friend of his. Jacob also had to jump several times for his 3rd place status. It is neat to see them participate. Rebekah ran for our church in her age group. She got 3rd place.

Jacob's Birthday

See if you can guess the theme of his birthday this year. I give you one guess....

Did you figure it out?

Beads and Books

Some school pictures...

Benjamin 11th grader

Rebekah 10th grade

Jacob 5th grader

Abigail 8th grader

The Peru girl cousins enjoyed spending a morning together. They had a jewelry making party.

First Sunday Back at Victory

Ben with one of the young ladies from church

Delcious potluck of peruvian food

Tons of people, including new faces to us, at the potluck

We made it!

Thursday at noon we left the hotel, arrived at the airport and found out that our check-in bags arrived in Lima several days before we did. We hoped they were still there and unopened (they were). At 3 PM they announced our boarding would be delayed until around 6 PM, we started laughing...so many delays, missed flights, etc...what would be next. At 5 PM we began boarding, at 6 PM we actually took off. Can you say excited? The flight was awesome with free headphones to use the personal movie/game screens at our seats. The children even played Battleship against each other (all my men were in row 17, us ladies were in row 8). We landed in Lima at 12:30 AM, flew through immigrations and picked up all of our bags. We now had 26 bags in our possession (carry ons and check ins). Off to the national airline counter to recheck in the checkins. We found out that now they allow 2 bags per person since we came off an international flight, woohoo, we only had to pay for the 2 extra bags!!! What a blessing. By 2:30 we had had some chicken and were waiting at our gate for our flight to Trujillo. Jacob slept through most of the wait. By 5 AM we were on our plane flying to Trujillo. It was a blessing to get home. Several of our youth group members were at our home cooking us a breakfast of pancakes and fruit salad. Too bad we had eaten on the flights and in the airport, we weren't too hungry. It is great to be home, today we saw many of our friends and church members, lots of huggin' is going on today. Several of our bags are unpacked, the rest will wait until next week. David is at the youth meeting right now, having a great reunion I am sure. Thanks to everyone for your diligent prayers for us.

Happy people waiting in the Lima airport for the last leg of our journey.

Jacob sacked out in the airport

Beautiful sunrise over the ocean on our flight to Trujillo
Our pickup packed with some of our bags

Dad's pickup with more of our stuff

Some of those who greeted us at home with a breakfast

Wednesday

Here are a few pictures from today so far...

Yes, we are using lots of sunscreen.

It is 104 outside with the heat index, we don't stay out long!

My pool man!

We have a grocery store about a block away so that has been helpful.
We haven't had to eat out all the time.