Go Vikings!

We are watching the Vikings right now on ESPN - hooray for satellite cable! It's making me a little homesick to see the Metrodome, but we are enjoying ourselves. We stayed home from work today because I (Emily) had a touch of the flu. But after a day and a half of feeling horrible, I'm feeling better now. I'll still stay home tomorrow just to be sure. Right now a lot of our work is on the computer, so Mark was able to work from home. He continues to work hard on updating and improving the website. We wrote a recent article about the kids' participation in National Egg Day on Friday that's on the front page if you want to check it out! www.roblealto.org

We spent last week continuing to create promotional materials to encourage groups to come down in 2010. We are working all our contacts and researching churches that may be interested. We're going to try all angles - the worst someone can say is no! Pamela, our boss, also trained us in on the process of having volunteer groups. There is a lot that goes into the preparations! We spend part of the week at the Central Office with our International Department team and the rest of the week at the Bible Home which has a super-nice new computer for us to use! One answer to prayer is that we found a wonderful tutor. She is the wife of one of the Roblealto staff and will work individually with each of us 4 hours a week. We found that because our team speaks such excellent English, we tend to speak to them in English and weren't practicing our Spanish like we should. This will be a huge help to keep learning and practicing. We definitely want to make sure we can speak Spanish by the time we leave.