Home again

After a week long road trip, Donna and I are back home. We went to Arizona to pick up a bus that has been converted to a motorhome. Owning a motorhome is not something we would just go out and do but hey, it was a gift to us. Free comes with some cost, doesn't it always? This bus gets around 6 1/2 miles to the gallon of diesel fuel. We drove approximently 1400 miles, that's 215 plus gallons @ an average cost of $2.25 a gallon. For all you math heads that's $484.62, not so free all of a sudden. Don't get me wrong, it is a very nice gift. It is a 1965 G.M Greyhound bus, converted in 1985. It has a sofa, two swivel chairs, nice kitchen with micro-wave and gas stoves. It also has a dishwasher, refrigerator and two compatment sink. The back of the bus is a bedroom. We have air conditioning as well as satellite tv.
Our future plans include spending some time in Mexico as missionaries. We serve the poor by bringing mostly used donated glasses (we do buy some very inexpensive reader type glasses as well as sunglasses)and doing basic vision testing. Once we determine the vision need of the individual we have them search bags of glasses that we have sorted by prescription. This is all very basic but if you have never been able to read or do needle work etc. then this makes a world of difference. We hope that by giving them a chance to see and giving them a chance to know the gospel, we might change a few lives. Our preaching is pretty basic, do as Jesus would do, share our love for each of them. We usually set up in a local church and encourage the local brothers and sisters to help. So with this bus I believe we will have more opportunities to reach out. One problem I see is the coninuall restocking that we do now, this would be more difficult if we spend much time down there. We usually carry around 1800-2000 glasses on each trip we take.
We are now going full-bore on getting ready to lead a team to San Luis, Chile in January. We will be holding our vision clinic as well as building a schoolroom while we are there. Well, I am done rattling on for now so, chau!