As most of you know we have been living at a friend's house for 3 months now. Our friends, who are missionaries, went back to Texas to have their baby and spend time with family for the holidays. Our 3 months is almost up and we had been looking for a house for a few weeks now.
It is very important to live in a safe area here in Guatemala. Finding houses in unsafe areas is not only easy but its cheap, but we need something safe and cheap. We looked at houses that were unclean but safe, unlivable but safe, too far away from things, etc. There was one house that was really beautiful and safe but was too much money for us. The owner really wanted us to rent it from him because he liked us and knew we would take care of it for him. The owner had two other offers for the house but he refused them in hopes that we would take it. We finally told him that the house was beautiful, safe and everything that we wanted but it was a bit too much for our budget. We continued looking at houses which proved to be harder then we thought.
We finally found a great little house within our budget that we said we would take. We went back a couple days later for Chantelle to measure for curtains when we found out a few things: there would not be water in the house when we moved in, probably no cabinets either and the rent price was wrong, it was actually %50 more.
We decided to go and speak to the owner of the other house that was out of our budget. He was doing some finishing work on the house before he left back to the USA the next morning. We told him what had happened with our house hunting adventures and to make a long story short...he gave us the house for cheaper then he originally said it would be. It's really cool that God gave us this house. We were willing to live in a different area, in a different house, and make it work but God is so cool to give us the house that we really wanted and at a lower price.
Thanks again to all of you who are supporting us through prayer and financial support.
Please continue to pray for us as we start a new year with new adventures here in Guatemala
We covet your prayers. We also ask that you please prayerfully consider supporting us financially. We can not do what we are doing without your prayers and financial support. Thank you so much friends for the prayer and support that is already being sent. We are so very grateful for your help.
WIA
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