We had our first weekend visitors recently. Hans & Elma Schroeder (our program coordinators) and their kids were the first brave folks from MCC in Santa Cruz to venture down for a few days. It was good to hear the news and otherwise visit, start painting out future resource center, eat outside meals, and go exploring for the "hot springs" (i.e. warm river water) in the mountains just west of Charagua.
Our yard and house is slowly getting even more ideal than it was: cement floor under the shauten dack, pruned fruit trees, garden vegetables and maralfalfa coming up, junk piles being hauled away, and so on. Besides working on that, we make trips to the Mennonite colonies about twice a week to meet people and ask question after question. We have also made plans to help a rural Bolivian clinic with vaccination clinics in Durango Colony. We anticipate that this "partner" will be a good link, as well, to some of the small Bolivian communities surrounding the Mennonite colonies.
Altogether, it is a calm, slow-paced life here in Charagua Station, and we cannot believe how lucky we are to be here! Development, partners, and capacity-building aside, the very best part of the day is making and eating our supper out on the patio, under the stars, and sitting there until it is time to go to bed.
p.s. New photos are posted fairly regularly into the "Charagua Photo Album," which you can click on to the right.
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