A Comfortable Routine

Dear Everyone,
We've had a "regular" type of week here. Believe it or not, I have not taken one photo this week, so I have nothing visual to share. We were busy though with regular school activites and such.

The kids are getting into their school routine. We will have open house for Joshua on Tuesday and the following week for Kayley. Joshua is in the band and takes drum lessons weekly. Kayley will begin recorder lessons this week and elementary gymnastics will begin soon.

David and Shelley continue with their language training and are now learning the imperfect subjunctive. This is used when one expresses an emotion or hope or thought or one of many other options about another subject. There is nothing like it in English, so it's a bit confusing to learn, but we're beginning to get the idea of it. We find after learning a concept we can begin to apply it to writing and reading, but it takes longer for it to be a part of our speaking. We've learned to be patient with ourselves and allow time to help us.

David and Shelley had the opportunity to meet with their new boss, Tim Brunk, this week. He was in Guatemala for meetings and it was a good opportunity to ask questions and hear more about our future in Costa Rica. We will be living in a duplex located on the seminary grounds in San Jose. It is a beautiful campus as we know from being there 3 years ago when we were part of a team digging the foundation for new buildings. Guess what? These buildings are the location of our new home. We had no idea we were helping to build our future house! (Sure hope David dug those foundations deep enough! I think 6 feet will do!) Our offices will be on the grounds as well, so it's just a short walk down the hill to work. Shelley will work with the finances until 3pm or so each day when the kids get home from school. David will be traveling some, but hopefully no more than one week each month.

We are also beginning the process for requesting residency in Costa Rica and will be mailing off much paperwork this week. You can pray with us that the process will be easy and smooth.

We are already looking forward to traveling home to Iowa for a short visit before heading back "down south." It's only about 15 weeks and we'll arrive in Des Moines where our crates and a moving company will await us. It's the hope that our crates will meet up with us in Costa Rica after the first of the year. That will be like Christmas all over again.

We appreciate your prayers for our family. God bless you. Until next week...
The Webbs