At the end of December Yuliza and I celebrated 5 years of marriage! God is so good to us! I am so incredibly blessed to have such a wonderful wife, and we are so blessed to have such a sweet daughter!
We’d appreciate your prayers for our family. It can be very difficult to balance our family life with the ministry. We stay pretty busy, and there’s almost always someone around. So we would greatly appreciate your prayers for wisdom and guidance!
We now have 4 kids! Alfonzo is our newest guy. He’s 15 and in 8th grade. He arrived this weekend, and we’re so excited to have him join our family. Today was the first day of class at the school where I teach English, and he’ll study there with Celia and me.
Please be in prayer for Alfonzo as he adjusts to life in our family, and please pray for us that we’ll be faithful servants of the Lord as we work with him, Alejandro, Flora and Celia.
Today was also Elias’ birthday, and he came over so that we could celebrate with him. It was great to have everyone all together! Our friend and fellow teacher Erika has also returned to live with the girls. She’s a huge help for us and does an incredible job with them!
We hope that you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I’m busy catching up with old posts that I’ve never finished, and here’s some pictures from our Christmas. 
It’s been a busy and fun time as Alejandro and Flora adjust to life with us. We also had the usual gang of Edwin, Benjamin, Elias and Jennifer join us to celebrate the holidays.
We also invited two guys from the home, Edwin and Juan Carlos, to join us for a few days of their break. We enjoyed spending extra time with them and loving them.
Christmas is celebrated very differently here. In the US most people go to candlelight services and sing “Silent Night” on Christmas Eve. Well, here we light lots of fireworks in order to bring joy to the world!
After the fireworks we make a fire and sit around talking and goofing off for as long as possible. Eventually everyone gets too tired and we go to sleep sometime after 3.
One thing that really impacted me when I first came to Guatemala was the way that they value relationships here. Long after most Americans would want to leave to be alone or go do something, Guatemalans just enjoy being together. Christmas and New Year’s perfectly exemplify this love of each other’s company. To be honest, at times it’s a little exhausting for me. I think that it’s both being American and an engineer, but I love that we get to love these guys and spend so much time with each other.
Here’s a review of what’s been going on here in the Potter’s Home in 2014. It was an incredibly great year, and we feel like God really blessed our ministry. But we’re even more excited for what’s in store for 2015!
I’ve been way too slow on updating our blog. I’m sorry about that! But I’m working hard on finishing the backlog of articles, and they should be showing up in the coming weeks.
