Mango

Let me tell you about our new little puppy Mango.  She is a lab mix of some kind.  We got her from G.A.I.N. (Guam Animals in Need) it is the only shelter on the Island and they have a lot of animals come in.  I have been volunteering there since about the first week we were on the Island.  It has been interesting and fun.  I have not trained a puppy on my own before.  Greg got her for me for my birthday, but made sure that I knew it was my dog and I was in charge of training and such.  Which was okay with me.  I love dogs!  She does all of the puppy stuff like chewing and playing.  I can't wait to take her along to the beach with us.  She needs one more shot before she is allowed to play with other dogs and go to public places.  Parvo is problem on the Island so they suggest these things to help keep your animal healthy.  We have been working hard on no biting and no jumping.  These are challenging when you are a puppy.  It is fun to watch her run around the yard and chase bugs, her tail or anything else that may move.  It has been way fun having her and I can't wait to train her to walk on a leash and play with other dogs. 

Greg has been doing lots of updates to his Jeep.  His first update was to put rhino lining all through the Jeep and take the carpet out.  It is much easier to clean and wash out this way.  It was also fairly in expensive to do, because he did it on his own.  It looks really good.

Yesterday he received the spacers he ordered for the wheels.  He noticed he couldn't turn the wheel the whole way with out it rubbing on the body.  So he looked up some information and ordered the part.  He put them on and it seems to drive smoother now.  We are still waiting for the dealership to set up an appointment to get the car realigned.  This is not an easy task and you have to have someone special do it, because it is lifted and the specs you use to align it are different than the factory specs. 

On Sunday we had our first church picnic.  It was awesome we had all sorts of different culture foods and normal picnic foods.  The best part of the entire picnic was the baptisms.  We were at Ypao beach and several people gave their testimonies and were baptized in the ocean.  My favorite testimony was that of an older lady who gave her testimony in Korean and had it translated.  I couldn't understand what she was saying until it was translated, but I could tell how excited and thankful she was to have God in her life. 

We finally got our homegoods on my birthday.  What a way to spend your birthday and the days following.  There was so much to unpack.  We had a whole bunch of lamps, but that is something that we don't need here at our house.  So we have sold some of them and others are on the facebook garage sale pages.  Here everyday is a garage sale.  People really enjoy swapping things or finding them for cheap.  We found a new table on craigslist.  It was a nice rectangular table with 6 chairs and a leaf to make it bigger in the middle.  It has been a fantastic addition and I feel like we are ready to have people over now.  We are selling the old table and someone is supposed to come get it today at 11am. 

We are still having loads of fun here on the Island.  There is so much to do, see, and taste here I don't know if it will ever get old.   I entered the Chili Cookoff on base.  That is today at 2pm.  It says the secret ingredient is spam.  I don't know if that means we are really supposed to use it or not, but I have managed to make a chili with spam that tastes good.  So here is hoping the judges like it too.  It is in the crockpot as I write becoming it's delicious self. 

I am still on the hunt for a job.  I have not found anything, but applied for many things.  I can't even seem to find a part time job.  If you could pray for that, it would be much appreciated. 

Prayer requests:

• patience (everything takes a longer here)
• that our marriage continues to grow
• that we might find other couples in similar situations as us to befriend