I would like to thank all of you who have been reading my blog and also to apologize for not having added to the blog for almost two months. Many of you know that one of my sons became ill over the winter, and I am currently at home, since he is unmarried and lives in an apartment in the house next to mine. Although I miss Tizimin and the people there very much, it is more important that I be home with my son at the present time.
Even though I am at home right now, I am planning to start blogging again on a regular basis. I still haven’t told you the story of Lupita (not her real name), for example, which has been very much on my heart since just before Christmas. While I am here, my daughter is going to teach me how to upload pictures into my blog, and I have lots of pictures to share with you. It will be interesting to see if the actual picture is anything like the mental image of things you may have formed from my verbal descriptions. As I mentioned early in my blog, I went on the Mission Awareness Trip to Merida in November to help with translation. A Mission Awareness Trip (MAT) is a trip that CFCA provides for sponsors (and anyone else interested) to meet their sponsored friends and see how CFCA actually functions in the field. I will be going on a MAT from May 8-15 to El Salvador to spend some time with my own sponsored children. This will be the third time I have visited them, and each time it gets more exciting as I get to know them better and see the progress each of them is making. Our letters have also become much more personal since we have met. My daughter Kate and friend Cheryl will be joining me there. Cheryl has gone with me each time I went, but this will be Kate’s introduction to CFCA’s actual work. They will be flying down together, but I have to leave on Mon., May 3, to return to Tizimin because my flight leaves from down there since I had not planned to be at home. When I came home, I had only planned to be here for a couple of weeks, and so I left everything in Tizimin. I should also have lots of stories and pictures when I return from the MAT.
Later this week I will introduce you to Lupita, and next week (I hope) I will start sharing some of my pictures with you, so stay tuned – the saga of Tizimin continues.
