New House!!!

It is official! Mario and I have our very own first place and we love Love LOVE it!  God has totally moved and provided for us to be able to live here and we are so blown away (again) by His blessings and faithfulness.  We found the house through a friend and when we came to look at it we really liked it, but didn't know if it was for us.  We prayed about it and felt that God was challenging us in our faith, since the monthly rent and bills would total more that we were receiving in support monthly.  We prayed, questioned, and finally took the steps necessary to walk by faith.  We moved in at the beginning of September and a few short weeks later we found out that we would be receiving support from my home church, Rosedale Bible, for a little over what we needed to cover the rent each month.  How great is our God!?! His timing is PERFECT!!!  So we love this house, we love the challenge of living on a new level of faith, we love the space that is ours!  Our neighborhood is very peaceful and we live in front of the end of the neighborhood so we have greenery (which is rare in the city neighborhoods) right out front!  Okay, enough talking, here are the pictures!!!

back yard planter with orange tree (before)

back patio/clothes lines aka Guatemalan dryer

planter where we plan on planting bell peppers (and a very cute gardener)

unwanted huge house guest on our sign

garage

front lawn area

kitchen

another view of the kitchen

pila and laundry area

this is called the service room and it is normally used for the girl who is live in help- something very common here in Guatemala, but since we don't have the need for live in help we are using it to store the base computers :)

bathroom

guest bedroom where we have already had 3 different people stay and have more lined up (make your reservation today!!!)

bedroom #2- we mostly use it for our quiet times so I have started to call it the Jesus room

our bedroom

our bedroom view #2

dinning room

living room (furniture thanks to the Chavez family!!!)

living room view #2

So there you have it, folks.  We plan on making improvements as we go.  In fact, as we speak, Mario is putting up the curtains that I bought at the thrift store in the Jesus room and the kitchen.  What a good man I have!  We will keep you all updated on our progress here!!!