!Dios es bueno siempre!

BECKY: I went a week and a half ago to a specialist for the eczema on my hands. What an answer to prayer! Within a day my hands where in the least amount of pain that they had been in for previous month. I go this Wednesday for a fellow up appointment. The dermatologist really knew just what to do for me, and took pictures of my hands to document them to be able to compare the progress in the following weeks. She was the best dermatologist I have been to.

THE BOYS: We thought that Josiah had chicken pocks last week. So we kept him away from kids, and didn’t go to church last week, we were a little perplexed because they have both had the vaccine. We were praying about what to do with the possibility of missing school for a week. But, Dios es bueno! But the spots didn't do much and went away as quick as they came. We had a doctor friend of ours look at it, he has been a blessing to have on the campus.
We have a long weekend this week. Yesterday we went and enjoyed the children’s museum in down town San Jose. It used to be an old prison that looks like a castle. The boys really enjoyed it there! Their favorite things were the pretend banana plantation, coffee shop, live animals, and flying a decommissioned plane. Elliott liked the animals until a big bird came over and pecked at his little finger. He didn’t get hurt, just frightened.

STEVE: As I think back at Spanish at UNH, it was for 1 hour three times a week; on top of 3-4 other classes. Here we are getting 4 hours of Spanish 5 days a week! I have always enjoyed studying spanish in the past but could never put the time into it. The teachers are fantastic, certainly the best I've had. We had been praying for opportunities to use Spanish more. We were talking to our neighbors and they offered to practice Spanish with us teaching us common phrases, and helping us with home work. We are going to have them over for dinner this week, and hopefully set up a time to meet with them that would work out best for both of us. Pray that God would use us in any way that he would have regarding the relationship with our neighbors. This would be a wonderful opportunity for us to learn the language, build a relationship and share Christ with them too. We had a great time with some fellow students here from Korea who are going to Mexico (Elias and Joy). They live a couple houses down. They don't speak english entirely and I don't speak Korean, so we've met half way and converse in Spanish! They are a great example of hospitality.

I had the chance finally to play soccer the other night, I felt like a fish in water. I have to admit my walk to school the next day was a little belabored....

Thank you for your continued prayers!
The Diems

Mucho Agua!

On Monday Morning at 4:00 am I thought that I heard our neighbor taking a shower. The walls are not very sound proof here, and we share walls with each of our neighbors. When I went down stairs around 5:45 this morning I found out that it was not our neighbor who was taking a shower. ..A pipe in under the kitchen sink came apart and our entire first floor was covered with over an inch of water. Steve and I spent the morning sweeping the water out the door. Thankfully the only thing that really got ruined was Steve’s grammar book ( he can get a new one easily). The floor is dry now and Steve replaced the flex pipe that broke off at the nut (he got good practice using plumming vocabulary at the hardware store). Josiah came down the stairs this morning and said “ Dad, why is there a big puddle in our house” It was very funny! We are thankful that we were here when it happened, and thankful that there was not a lot of damage done. I should have shot a little video of it, but was not thinking of that at the time, we had to get to school! A “memory making" morning!