The day they all arrived (minus the Schweigers)

June 15, 2013

We got up and had another fantastic breakfast!  Fr. Lorenzo met us after breakfast and took us back to Sacred Hearts church.  He showed us where he lived.  MY goodness the beauty was in the eye of the beholder.  It was rather primitive, but a HOME not just a place to live.  I hope that if we go back we can work on their kitchen a bit.  It has a lot of rotting wood and places that need some work.  They have a great view of the whole town of San Ignacio and we were able to see it from the attic space.  There were gecko up in the attic!  :)

This leads me to sharing about Fr. Leo and Fr. Lorenzo's new adventures.  Fr. Leo is soon leaving Sacred Hearts church as the pastor.  He has become the leader of the new seminary in San Ignacio.  This is the only (and brand new) seminary in all of Belize.  He is excited but overwhelmed with this new responsibility.  The seminarians (many spent time with us when we went to Tikal) will have 2 years in this school and then move to the US and go to school in St. Louis, Missouri to complete 6 years of school.  The school in St. Louis is helping get the whole seminary set up in Belize.

Fr. Lorenzo is leaving Sacred Hearts and moving to the Orange Walk area.  He is very sad by this move as he will not only be leaving his parish family, but his mom.  She is precious and I am happy to say I finally got to meet her!  :)

The priest who will be stepping into Fr. Lorenzo's shoes is Fr. Selvin Garcia.  We met him when Fr. Lorenzo came to the US.  Fr. Selvin was a priest in Beaver Dam at the time.  God sure works in mysterious ways.  It seemed he cleared out all the connections we were making, but then we realized we had met and knew Fr. Selvin.  Pretty cool feeling!

Fr. Lorenzo took us back to Windy Hill in time for lunch and then the big group arrived.  They were met at the airport by the bus company "Butt's Up" (a tubing term) and the driver Raphael.  They all had smiles on their faces, but sure were tired.  It was good to see and hear that they all made it safely.

We had our first big dinner, a swim and relaxed the rest of the evening.