for everyone update

Hi.
Just a quick note to update everyone. As of today we have planted or transplanted: corn, cassava, bananas, beets, carrots, oranges, noni, papaya, cabbage, eggplant, watermelon, onions, garlic, flowers, and coconut. Now with the Lord's blessings, if just part of everything will grow we will have a nice harvest, hopefully in rotating crops. I am most excited about the carrots and beets. If we can introduce them into the people diet here. It would make a major difference in their health to add
the vitamins available in carrots and beets. Of course I have to grow them and use them before I can teach them to grow and use them.
Clint is gone to Managua this week to work on his resident visa. We only have one more year before he can apply for a permanent visa. That will be nice. We are praying that he will make it back safely by Friday.
We have had about 4 days of sun before today big rain storms. It has been a blessing.
More later
Marilyn

Weekly update

June 23, 07
Dear Family,
Here is our weekly formal update for all you. It has been an exciting week.
We got our computer up and running for radio email. That has been the best part of this week.
We have had a man working that is good with cement so he has been plastering and doing the finishing work on our cement walls downstairs. It is looking so nice. I didn't think it could ever look this nice so I am very relieved. I thought it would always look like an old broken-put-back-together puzzle wall. Now it looks almost as good as new. After we paint, it will look very nice. Of course paint is very far down the list right now. Our outhouse still doesn't have zinc on the roof. Since
it has been raining almost every hour, it is challenging to find a good time to go to the bathroom!
Bethany's hair is growing from the chopping it received.
Clint has an appointment to get his resident visa on JULY 24. Since that is still a long time away, he will make a trip to Managua this week to his passport and old id card back. He will also use this trip to buy some things that important that we can save a lot of money to get in Managua.
It rained most of the week. We can't hang our laundry outside because it never dries. The water is also getting colder so I am starting to work on Clint for a hot water heater. Of course right now we don't have running water so he is not worried about it and just waves me off. But he took his bath this morning when he woke up at 4:45 and he agreed it was cold.
More later
Love
Marilyn

update 6-20

Hello everybody! Here is one of our first mini-newsletter updates. Please check back often to find out what is happening.

Our house is slowing getting closed in and improved. My kitchen is closed in with doors. We are still waiting for window shutters. We have one section of house that is waiting until future time to be completed. In that section is the bathroom and pantry and bedrooms on the second floor.
Thanks
Marilyn

The village spillway is finished. It took a week and a half. The waterfall with a pond behind it was eating away the dam. We fixed it with cement so the people will have many more years to use the pond for clothes washing and bathing. It is especially essential during the dry season when there is very little water. A nice reservoir is good to have.
Please continue to pray for us as work with the people here.
Clint

On Friday we applied to the government health department for permission to operate a pharmacy. The application will be sent to the Regional center in Puerto Cabazes. We hope to have permission this next week to start the much needed pharmacy.
Marilyn