Well anoter week has gone by and most things are falling into place.

Last Sunday I was leading worship at church here (as expected!) and things went really well. The band are pretty good and as predicted all that they needed was a little bit of leadership and organisation and the rest was easy. Tonight it´s worship practice again, and we´re gonna just continue to play together and decide who´s playing on sunday. Both Liz & I did say that we wanted to get into a good habit of getting a break in leading, but we´ve both decided that the best scenario for here is to help as much as we can every week and then when we want/need to be away/holiday then all we do is let the pastor know. In the meanwhile we will also try and spend time with others and nurture them into a place of where they are able to lead and in the long term that should help the church.

Liz this week has been going to her Spanish lessons and she has been enjoying herself very much. She´s in quite a small group (3 in total including her) but she´s definately getting the most of the lessons and she´s very happy with her pronunciation. She does 2 hours every day, but this week she´s only doing 3 days – it´s exam time here so they are short on teachers but after next week things should go back to full swing. Yo´ll be proud to know that she´s been using her Spanish a lot and getting the bus from Estepona and back all on her own. She´s also managed to do the weekly shopping and buy herself some new sandals. Go girl!

Last night I had a real gastronomical treat, Liz bought a Spanish cook book (written in Spanish) and she´s adamant to cook a recipe every so often. So last night was the 1st one, “Habas con Jamon” – basically it´s pealed broad beans with with Jamon Serrano (similar to Parma Ham). Very very nice indeed, I´m looking forward to the next instalment and hopefuly I´ll get some pics up.

Work is going very very well. Lots to do, lots to learn, lots of meetings and lots to share when I get home in the evenings at 6.30pm. It´s a great challenge and I really hope to continue to get to grips with things everyday.

Well it´s time for me to say goodnight, I´ll write a little more later.

Lots of love,

Mike