Food Adventure. Car Adventure.

We treated our visiting group to a traditional Puerto Rican dinner yesterday. Tina and I took them to a church members house who lives out further in the country and has a nice collection of fruit trees, chickens and a lot of good stories to tell. We had TOSTONES. Tostones are thick slices of the green plantain, a giant straight kind of banana used in a lot of local dishes. It is fried, flattened, fried again and finally served hot and salted. It is the Puerto Rican version of French fries and eaten everywhere.

Unfortunately, our car transmission went out on the way over and we had to get the car towed home. Today we went and got another used car, a 2002 Honda Odyssey mini-van. We are having a lot of fun with the group and are grateful for all the work they are getting done at the church. But the car payments, about $250 a month on a Fifteen thousand dollar loan, are a new burden for us. We give thanks for the positive attitude of the group and their leadership. Please pray with us that we may have the faithful transportation we need to accomplish the work we came here to do.