Monday update

Wanted to give everyone an update. Our Internet connection was down all day yesterday , so that hampered our communication for a day. But, we have discovered that my Vonage soft phone works great from here. YES! That means (if its working) we can now call home for free. But only works from my laptop, so we can only do in the hotel room. We did call home and learned that Rachel has been sick. She is getting better by this morning. But it is really hard to be this far away while your children are sick. We really miss Aaron and Rachel terribly, and really look forward to getting home to see them.

Even though our camera was stolen, we were fortunate to borrow a camera for part of our trip. So we have posted pictures online at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ray.honeycutt/MendozaNov08#

We attended church services with Pastor Juan Carlos last evening. Most churches here have services at night. Juan Carlos leads the Equip council for Mendoza, so he and his team are responsible for all the logistics and promotion of the conference. They have put in an enormous number of hours, long before I arrive here. His church was also the site of this conference, since it can accommodate large crowds. Their average attendance on Sunday is 500-600.

Today is our site seeing day. We want to pick up a few souvenirs, and hopefully venture out into the region some today. I am not confident to be able to drive in the City here. It would be similar to pulling your car into the middle of a Italian Formula 1 race. Let us just say, they drive aggressively.