News and Notes...from the French Island!

Little Micah turned 3 months old!  For the most part, he is a pretty content baby.  I love this age where he loves to stare at you and as soon as you make eye contact, he gives a big smile with his one dimple! 

- Our family is doing well.  Elisabeth, Brenna and I still have our bouts with allergies but they seem to be getting less and less as the trees here have stopped blooming for this spring season.  Silas and Callie started running fevers last night but seem to be doing well this morning.  (I still don't understand how they get up at 5:45 - 6:00 A.M. every morning!  It doesn't seem to matter how late they get to bed or if they are sick, they always seem to get up so early.

- We praise the Lord for the rain we have had lately.  After arriving back to St. Barths at the end of May, we haven't had any rain for 6 weeks.  We have had to keep adding water to our cistern from the "city water" that our landlord had connected to our property.  There is a spigot at the side of the road and we run a hose from it to our cistern and put in some water.  We haven't seen the bill for the water yet but we really don't have a choice...water is one thing we have to have every day!  Hopefully soon it will rain for several days to help fill our cistern.

- I have been trying to get someone at the post office (La Poste) here on St. Barths to answer my questions but to no avail.  There is a side door at the main office in town that you ring a doorbell and someone will come help you.  I have tried ringing and knocking at the door to no avail for several days in the past week.  I am trying to find out the price of sending a mail-out of our Gospel tracts & invitations to our Bible Study and also whether it is illegal according to French law to put stuff in mailboxes.  If anyone knows what the french law is concerning whether or not you can put flyers in or on mailboxes, please feel free to email me!  (patrickgimenez@mwbm.org)

Until next time.....