The kids and I are enjoying a nice visit in Northern California with my family.  Scott has been busy each day digging trenches, learning spanish and buying material for the mission site, so it is a nice break for us from the long days without him.  Before we left we took food to a single mother, recently abandoned and took homeschool materials to a few missionary wives, trying to encourage people in that way.

In my last post about moving into the house, I failed to add that it was also partially motivated by the fact that we discovered I was pregnant.  We are excited but Scott had recently read about the higher mortality rate near the border, and Tijuana particularly is a pollution nightmare.  Just another reason to plunk his family down somewhere a bit safer, while he plugs away at the mission site.

I am thankful to be called somewhere so close to family and friends(9 hours) but do often long for a place in the country, with clean air and few cars. The mission site does have a bit of a country feel though, for which I am grateful, and I do hope many of you will have the opportunity to experience both the beauty of the hill overlooking the Pacific, and the joy of helping the poor in Mexico.