Forrest has had swine flu! He's just about all better now, but was down for about 3 weeks because of it.
I've got my English work a little stable finally. We've always charged by hour, but by the end of the month always had less than we expected because of the students cancelling classes for any little thing. So this month I finally made my bold move after lots of pep talks from Forrest. I now charge per month, to be paid at the beginning of the month, one price for if they want classes once a week, twice a week, or 3 times a week. So now of course they're going to take it seriously and not miss class, but even if they do it won't effect my income. I'd been afraid for a long time that nobody would accept that, and I'd lose all my work, but I have 9 hours a week, which is a little more than necessary. Monday and Wednesday I teach from 4-8, for 4 girls in a row, a 4-year old, a 6-year old, a 10 year old then an 11-year old. Then I teach the 10 year old on Friday also. Forrest's work is going good too. It really feels like Jehovah is blessing our efforts to stay here a good long time.
We're getting ready for Tom and Chaffee's visit, they'll be in October 28. We've been buying some things we've needed for a while- more blankets, more towels, curtains, kitchen appliances, we even got an egg-foam mattress cover for our bed.
The other big thing is our international convention!!! November 5-8. Everybody is really excited, buying their bus tickets to Trujillo. I think we're going to leave Tuesday night, to get there Wed. morning to find our hotel and go food shopping, since it starts Thursday midday.
