Maya Beach

I posted a bunch of pics in the above slide show of our trip to Placencia (Maya Beach) that we took a few weeks ago. God blessed us with one of the best and most relaxing times we have ever had as a family!

Changing of the gaurd

The family who will be taking our place arrived this past Thursday. They are Dan, Maria, and Niki Thibault (pronounced Tee-Bow). (They are the folks on the couch minus the baby). Dan and Maria are nurse practitioners like myself, and Niki is in high school. We are very excited about them being here. Not just for the fact that they are taking our place, but for the love, compassion and expertise care they are going to provide these wonderful people. Please pray for them as they adjust to this culture and for us that we can relay and impart to them all that this position entails.

How to change a tire

As some of you know my grandfather or as we called him Papa (pronounced paw-paw) Keefer, died this past Friday. Papa had a tough past 5 years or so, but I choose to remember him as I did as a child growing up. We would spend summers with him and Nanny at their house in Texas. He was always tinkering with something, whether it be a car, or motor of some kind. He had a "farm" which was not really a farm but just a piece of land that had a big tin garage that had old cars he was working on and of course his tractor. Papa taught me many things, like how to drive a riding lawn mower and his tractor. He also tried to teach me how to work on machines. But the most memorable lesson was how to change a tire. I can remember it like it was yesterday. It was me and my cousin Jamon, under the hot Texas sun with the smell of pine trees in the air, changing a tire on Papa's trailer.

Well, I can still change a tire, and drive a tractor, but his mechanic lessons did not stick. However, the gifts he gave me go far beyond how to change a tire, and they will live on through my life. So when the day comes when it is Aidan's time to learn how to loosen lug nuts, I'll remember you Papa. I'll remember your love for God, wife, children, and grandchildren. I look forward to being united with you and Nanny again on the streets of gold you use to sing about.

Technical issues

I have not been able to log into this blog for the past 2 weeks, and I just got it fixed today! More blogs to come...

Nearing an end and a beginning

I cannot believe that yesterday marked 8 weeks until we will be back in the U.S. from our year here in Belize! Unbelievable! I am sure we will not truly understand all that God has and is teaching us through this experience until a later time. Humility, faith and patience are a few life lessons we have learned, but I know we will glean much more from our time here. God has and continues to be so good to us. Just allowing us this opportunity, and even more the honor of showing Him to these precious people.

But just as we are nearing an end here, we are also nearing the beginning of something new and fresh in our life. (Now if God would only show us what exactly this "new thing" is, we would be set)! We honestly do not have any set plans for when we return at the end of September. We have some ideas, but nothing concrete. So please pray with us that God would make our path known to us.

You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever." Psalm 16:11 (NASB)