Juhlin Missionaries to Guatemala

Hi All
We are now into our first day at language school. Yesterday we drove to Antiqua and were introduced to our home stay. We were shocked at the room and home we were put into. We are on the top level , in an obviously new room. We did not speak much for half an hour as we thought about whether we could live in the house. They are a very poor family. Breakfast was good so we are going to stay for a time. They installed a small light outside our 10 by 10 foot room. The patio is where they dry clothes. A room behind us is half constructed and I am sure that people can jump into the building from the trail above. We have one chair no closet an old 4 drawer dresser. No shelves no where to hang clothes, hats etc. One small window and the building faces south so gets very hot. Speaking of hot we have already had the 10 greatest days that would make up the best of summer in Canada. Weather is hard to take but the only compensation in a country very different from our own. Everything seems a little backwards and we can feel the frustration levels climbing. Spanish is simple until you study it and find they have 14 tenses ( English has 3) and you begin conjugating verbs. Not easy at all!!.

Our wireless cannot find a connection so all correspondence is from our computer hooked into a coffee shop port.

Must go looking for chairs shelves and corn oil to replace the soy oil being used at the house.

I will try to get back on this site by Friday.

In Deep here in Guatemala

Tim & Sheila