The Mayer Family

So what have we been doing this week?
Here are some highlights:
-Last night, our neighbor Margarita came and invited the kids and me to go bowling with her and her kids. So Evan and I went with her and Miguel and Elisa (her children). Evan had a blast, and we had a nice time talking and it was good Spanish practice!

Bowling

Elisa and Miguel and Evan in the background

-We met twice this week with some different neighbors for language practice. Our next door neighbor, Christina, wants to practice/learn more English, so we spent one hour talking Spanish and the other English. We hope to continue, as it was great practice for us, and of course fun to talk English and finally be the one who doesn’t say everything wrong, and to actually feel a little educated!
-A fun highlight for Kevin was meeting a Spaniard who is currently working on his Doctorate, and his Thesis is, believe it or not, on The Lord of the Rings! They’ve had a couple of great discussions about J.R.R. Tolkien (the author) and of Tolkien’s good friend, C.S. Lewis. This is quite unusual for a Spaniard to be so passionate about this story. There are some great tie-ins between the writings of Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and the teachings of Jesus, so Kevin is looking forward to future conversations.
-We were excited to receive Evan’s materials for school in the mail from Sonlight. It will be a new experience to have school at home this year, but we are looking forward to it, and the materials look great. Evan wanted to start the day we received them, and didn’t understand why we needed to wait!
-We started a new “tradition” last week of starting off each morning with a worship song, and then praying for one of our friends together as a family. Evan and Ellie are enjoying this, and even Ellie participates in the repeat-after-me prayers.

Some of the more normal and not-so-exciting things we’ve been doing include our Rosetta Stone language learning computer program every day. We’ve also been preparing for our trip next week. We leave next Friday for Germany to attend a Holy-Spirit in Missions Conference for several days. We are going a little early for a few days of vacation beside the Rhine river in Germany.

Evan and Miguel playing today on the ramp that leads to the garage beneath the building we live in

-Wendy