Trying out the bus system

On Friday morning, we went out to our car to head to the Central Offices for our meetings to find that our Corolla wouldn't start. We hadn't had any problems with it, so we had no idea what was going on, but the ignition didn't even make a clicking sound. We had three big meetings so we had to get into the city. Luckily, our landlord called a friend who has a taxi service and we were able to make it to our appointments. We had a busy day of learning about the psychology, social work and Christian Education departments at Roblealto (again, all in Spanish!) and then Lizzy and Pamela (part of our International Team) showed us how to take the bus home. We have a bus that comes right to the restaurant by our house and we saw how easy it would be to take the bus right into the main part of San Jose and not have to deal with the crazy driving!

Our landlord's friend is also a mechanic so he's looking over our car right now and luckily there was just an easily-fixed problem with the battery. We plan to go tonight to a concert at Pamela and Lizzy's church. We visited there last week and it was a great experience. This is a mega-church right in the middle of the neighborhoods that are served by the daycare centers. The Sunday morning service was like attending an intense worship concert - so much energy! It was incredibly Christ-focused and we really enjoyed the worship. It helped that the pastor speaks very clear Spanish so we could understand the sermon!

On Wednesday we enjoyed a tour of the hog farm at Roblealto. The whole farm provides for about 15% of Roblealto's operating costs, primarily through the chicken farm, but it was fun to learn about the pig and cow operations as well. We, of course, had many photo ops, too :) Fun for city kids like us. We continue typing up reports on each part of Roblealto as we learn. These reports will be used as information cards for tours given to volunteer groups that come to Roblealto. We have a few more meetings to go this coming week. It is overwhelming, a blessing, moving, impactful and encouraging to learn all about this great organization. We are thankful to get such a great overview on all the parts and to see what God is doing at Roblealto! Check out the website (www.roblealto.org) for more information!