Options

Quick update.... right after I posted about the horrible electricity we had two good nights of no power outages and good sleep! So thankful!

Of course, it didn’t last and we had a bad night last night... it’s actually kinda funny cause all the ex-pats here in town are so grumpy because everyone is short on sleep and complaining about the horrible electricity. :)

And our internet has been really, really bad lately too.... it’s taken 30 minutes just to get my blog up and running, so we’re not posting any pictures tonight. :)

Main reason why I’m writing is we need some serious prayer. We need to make a decision by THIS Friday (Thursday, American time) regarding which house we will move to after we get kicked out of this house. While we don’t have to be out of this house til end of July, housing options (that include a toilet and an indoor kitchen) are very hard to come by here in town, so we need to commit or let someone else have it, so to speak....

So I’m going to try to spell out our two options and I would love feedback as to your opinion on which we should take! (And prayer that the Lord guides us to the right decision!)

Option A - We’ll call the “beautiful house.” It’s owned by another mission and has been totally decked out with every luxury known to missionary :) -it’s basically a Western house - has duel electricity (110 and 220) HOT water out of EVERY tap, has a nice Western style lay-out with a beautiful kitchen and a great screened in porch overlooking the valley. If we moved into this house, it would be “ours” - really nice as we have so far in our almost 4 years here always lived in someone else’s house, but that also means we would need to buy/borrow/beg some furniture off of people to fill the house. :) (We do have some basic pieces, but not much). The beautiful house is set up a hill, but on a very busy street with NO neighbors (a bad thing - neighbors are the built-in security watch in every neighborhood) so it’s definitely not conducive to making friends with the national people and makes us a bit wary security-wise.

Option B - We’ll call the “ugly house” mainly because I get to make the titles and I think the house is ugly. :) It’s in a decent neighborhood and is a very national style (translated: unusual) lay-out, but it just hasn’t been well taken care of. Our friends live in it (they just moved in, so you don’t think they are lazy in their house repairs) and are going on furlough so they have offered it to us to stay in while they are gone. The major plus to this house is that they wouldn’t charge us rent (FREE!) but the HUGE drawback is we would have to move out January 1, because they get back from furlough January 2, 2012. So we would have to find another place to rent before we plan to go on furlough in April 2012.... moving again just for 3 months does NOT sound like fun. However, who can pass up free rent???? And with the better location??? (And yes, Brant did say that because we’re not paying rent we could spring for some paint and make it not quite so ugly.) :)

Ideas????

Pray!!!