Tuesday morning after breakfast, my stomach started to hurt.  Since I had just eaten, I thought maybe it was just indigestion.  But it didn’t go away.  The previous Thursday, Diane had made me a Tuesday appointment with the doctor because I have had a bad cough (still have it).  She said if I got better, I could just cancel the appointment.  Well, I kept the appointment, and told him about my stomach pain.  After examining me, he said it might be appendicitis, and sent me to the ER for more tests and analysis.  The diagnosis was confirmed and I had surgery at 4 that afternoon.

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I could definitely see God working through this, because I’m sure that if it had been left up to me, I would have suffered through it for a few days until the pain became unbearable, and then who knows what might have happened.  

 

Since Monday is Independence Day in Costa Rica, I don’t have to go back to school until Tuesday.  That should give me enough time to rest.  My classmates have been providing me with my homework assignments, so I should be able to keep up.

 

All aspects of my hospital stay went well, even the food.  I had a large private room – see the pics.  The hospital name is Clinica Biblica.  If you want to check them out, here is their website.

 

http://www.clinicabiblica.com/index_eng.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We have really had a great time the last couple of days visiting with our friend Shedd Waskosky.  We first met in Ecuador in 2003 when we took our first short term trip.  He stopped by for a couple of days on his way to a conference here in Costa Rica.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Over the last week or so, three new teachers have moved into the apartment next door. They have been getting acclimated, as well as preparing for the school year. Well, today was the first day of school for them. Since we have always liked to take first-day-of-school pics, we thought we’d like to do that with them to. So here they are, from left to right, Kim, Kate, and Trish.

Please pray for them. They are missionaries too, teaching in Sojourn Academy, the school that shares the property with the Spanish Language Institute. Most of the kids of the Spanish students attend there.

Welcome to our new look for our website.  We’d really be interested in what you think of it.  Leave a comment or send us an e-mail.

Well, our first trimester here at language school is now history, and I’m glad to be taking a break. We both got all A’s, so we were really pleased with that.

It’s a hard time, though, because we have to say goodbye to a lot of the people that are graduating and leaving. And that part of it is only going to get worse, because generally speaking, we know the people better who are closer to us in school. So when the second trimester ends in December, we do it again. And then we will be the ones leaving next April.

As we reflect on this, and as we talk about it, we have concluded that this meeting and then saying goodbye is a good thing. God has brought so many people from so many places across our path, and then sent us in all different directions. We know people all over the world! And as a result, we can hear first hand what God is doing in other parts of the world. So, as painful as goodbyes are, we can trust that they are for our good. Romans 8:28