Things on the house are moving along a little slowly but, that's ok. The seller has the contract and Calixto will meet with her this morning to go over things together. I believe they are expecting us to pay all closing costs, theirs included! Not happy about that. If that is the case then we will require some more things of them like thoroughly cleaning the house. I need to make a list of those things today.
Last night we took part in a prayer walk down some pretty poor streets on the southside. This is the 2nd one for Longview and the attendance was down a bit from the 1st. But, there were still a lot of people, maybe 200. Many people came out of their homes to say hello or wave as we walked by. I felt like I was in some other city or "time" as we walked past these old run down houses. It brought tears to my eyes to see the way some people live just a few blocks from our home. The kids enjoyed themselves as some of our good friends came too. We were even in video on the news. Unfortunately they don't have the video posted on their website, I wanted Christopher to see it.
We leave tomorrow to spend the weekend in Granbury. Calixto will be doing an orientation with some guys going to Mx with us in Nov. so we decided to make a weekend of it and stay at "the condo". The owners are so sweet to let us stay there when we are in town. Then next weekend Calixto will be in Mx for the 1st annual pastor's conference in Tamazunchale. Preparation for this has taken up a lot of his sabbatical time but, at least he has had time to focus on it and make it a priority.
If you are in Longview...enjoy the cool weather...what a difference a day makes!