Drinks Anyone?

So here are a few pics from last night.  Our friend Carley is in town from NC...so we finally got a night to go out and have a drink.  We spent a little time at a beach lounge named "Playa".  It's a really nice place right on the beach.  It's slow now so we were the only people there besides one other table.  This first pic is of Rob, Beth, and Gabe.  They're our family here and they are the one's we stayed with for a while until we got our own little apartment.  

This next one is of cute Carley, my beautiful Dani, and myself.  A tasty drink, a nice breeze, cool night weather, and good company.  Sweet thang.  It's nice having Carley here...living on an island you don't see a whole lot of new faces, at least new faces that you know.  So it's nice having a familiar face and friend around.  Kayak.com for the rest of you back home wanting to come visit.  Airport code: BZE and then MayaIslandAir.com BZE to San Pedro...come on down...  :)

And then a personal favorite...Lil' Gabers and Dani... How cute are they!!!  Rob and Beth have to go the mainland tomorrow so we'll be watching Lil' Gabers for they day.  Looks like I'll be taking him to the beach.  He loves to find coconuts and then run up a dock and throw them in the water.

And this final pic is our normal shower situation... It may be the only shower that if you slip and fall you might get injured by a spear gun.  My gear is usually in here drying out.  

By the way...we had our special talk tonight, "Is there a true religion from God's standpoint?".  It was a great bible based talk that shows how we really need to make sure we're getting bible based teachings and how to make sure we are.  This was the second week in a row we had over 80 in attendance, which is huge in a congregation of 30 something publishers.  

And on a side note, CONGRATS JOHNNY WENDT on the engagement!!!!  Coolio Julio...  and check your email...  

And for those of you out there wondering if there is anyway in the world you can contact me...you can always spend a few bucks and call me----> 011-501-626-6362

Til next time... 

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A Nice Rainy Day

Hey...it finally rained today...how sweet is that...unfortunately it cut the service day short...

What else to do on a rainy day but go spearfishing. The water was beautiful since the cool front from Mexico blew in rain and wind for the west. So Rob and I took advantage of the nice waters and went fishing.

Here are a few pics of some of todays catch...We try not to shoot small fish so we only had like 10 from today...Here's a pic of a nice Schoolmaster Snapper and a big spider crab...

Dinner is going to be good tonight!

Where we live...

I just thought just in case you wanted to know exactly where we live...

Click here and look for Casa Vista on the middle of your screen.

You should see a dock with two white squares around it, if you come straight off that dock you should see a small white roof next to a blue roof with a square around it. If you mouse over it you will see Casa Vista...and that's us...

Zoom out and you can the rest of our island.

My Fellow Blogger

Hey guys...just a quickie...Want to let you know a friend of mine over in Caye Caulker has a blog up too. If you want to keep up with the friends and congregation there go to Josh's Blog...Click Here

We have a friend coming in today from Charlotte...she's visiting for 3 weeks so I'll have a lot of updates coming up...

Til next time...

Four Days in the Jungle

So we spent the last four days out in the jungle.  Some friends of ours recently acquired a lodge in PG (Punta Gorda) a town in the South of the country.  He had some tile work he needed done so Dani and I headed on down to do them the favor.  So today's update is pretty much about our work there.  

I must say, creation and it's variety is truly amazing.  It's so cool how morning, daytime, and nighttime are all different worlds when you're in nature.  From the plants to the animals.  Here are a few examples:

If you take a close look to the picture to the left, you'll notice a baby scorpion...I reached down to grab a tile and this little sucker caught me by surprise...harmless I'm sure.

Here's another pic that shows just how small it was compared to my pinky...

Besides the scorpion and spiders and beetles and bats and butterflies and birds I had to take a few pictures of the ants.  The leaf cutters are so amazing...They cut paths all across the ground...and not just trim things but I'm talking down to the hard dirt.  It'll look like you took a bicycle and road it down the exact same path 1,000 times until it was just dirt.  It's so cool.  And these little guys are some serious hard workers... they will strip a tree down to sticks and branches over night.  Here's a day pic of their path during the day...



And here are a few from during the night when they are active.  I know this aren't the greatest of pics, but if you look close you will see small red and green pieces of plants.  Attached to each of these pieces are the leaf cutters, carrying their piece back to the nest.  If only the pictures did them justice.

Here's a pic of one of the managers on the job.  A big bad pit bull...He's so cute...

...and here's a pic of one of the rooms before the tile was laid...Do you see my other manager in this pic???

Here he is zoomed in...this little bat would not leave the room...All I could think of every time he flew around the room was Dwight and Merideth in the kitchen on "The Office".

This last nature pic is of this huge tree by this creek.  I forget the name but it looks very interesting.

And finally, this last picture is for my contractor friends back home or really anyone with any knowledge of home repair/plumbing/electrical. I've used these in Guatemala, Mexico, and here in Central America.  Basically this is a hot water heater for when you don't have a hot water heater.  The shower head connects directly to 110 and as the water flows through it it heats it up.  It actually works really good and you can control the temperature by controlling the amount of water passing through the shower head.  I think this one was pretty new because I didn't feel any electricity passing into my head.  The last two times I used one of these things I could feel a small amount of current in the water.  But no shocks this week...

I guess that's it for now...after a long week of tile laying and then giving the public talk in PG we finally made it home after a 7 hour bus ride and hour and a half boat ride back home to San Pedro.  It's time for dinner now and then a good nights rest.

Til next time...By the way...you can click on any of the pics to see the larger copy

Finally Blogging...

I figured that I mind as well start up a blog. I havebjvista.com but it's been 2+ years since I've updated it. But as of now, I'm learning CS4 so expect a kick butt site in the next couple of months. Anyway, life here is happy as usual. We only have 35 pubs in the congregation but had 151 at the memorial. Our sister island on Caye Caulker had 82 in attendance with a congregation of only 12. They figured it out that 1 in 8 people on the island were at the memorial. Crazy man...just crazy.

It's the windy months here so needless to say we haven't done much fishing lately. I'll be sure to post some pics when we finally get back out there. Some friends of ours from upstairs found a dead jaguar today. Turns out it was scratching on an electrical post and must have scratch into the copper and got electrocuted and it killed it. OUCH!

We had a friend over from Caye Caulker over last night. He gave the talk at our hall Sunday and had to stay over here to get his passport done today. Dani and I are going to be in PG (Punta Gorda) for the next couple of days. It's in the south of the country. A brother there needs some help laying some tile and a few other things so I'm heading over to help him. It's just a favor since I'm not legally allowed to work here yet. I'm trying to get my work permit but it's a run around so far.

So, we're living off savings as usual but also as usual, all is well. Jehovah always provides and we've seen it proven plenty of times. Well that's it for now. I'll try to catch everyone up as I go. I can't update you in one post...that would take pages.

I am attaching a few pics though...

 Dani with a boa...

     

Here's Dani at the Zoo. She actually got into a smaller cage that is inside the jaguars cage. Then the let the jaguar out and he gets on top of the small cage you are in...And you can feed him...Yes that's a chicken foot...

Fruit Loops...hey it's Toucan Sam...

 

This is classic...Lil Gabe got his head caught between the concrete ballisters on the balcony at Rob's house. We have a few pics but this one is about 3 seconds after he realizes he is officially stuck...We got him out before we had to break out a jack hammer....