The "final" weekend...

At first thought today's title might seem ominous or depressing... but really that is not how I am intending it.

We're on our final weekend before classes start for the 2011/2012 academic year. I can say that this coming year has more interesting challenges than years past. Joy will be picking up three elementary music classes in addition to her theory class and her choral classes. This is because we lost our elementary music teacher who is returning to the States to raise more support.

Also tied to that is that I (Ken) will be taking on his technical responsibilities in high school chapel, elementary chapel and worship team. Due to the time these events are scheduled I will have to step out of the class advisor job I was doing the last two years.

Today, Sunday, we are not going to church because last night during bath time we ran out of gas and have no more hot water. After spending the day at the school painting (Joy's class room) and playing with friends (recently returned to Guatemala) we're all pretty dirty. Abigail has another loose tooth... at this rate she will not have any left to chew her food.

Emma has spent time with her "teacher" this last week and seems to be enjoying herself. Last week they spent time learning the primary colours.

Updating on Joy: she is feeling better than she has felt since early May. It has been good to see her with energy again.

That is all for now... Please continue to pray for us as the regular school year starts on Wednesday.

-knme