The Abegg Love Letters

To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ; mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. -Jude 1:1

As Missionaries with United World Mission, we serve in Latin America to provide support & training to missionaries on the field. We work with Latin Partner Ministries that focus on everything from theological education to medical care, from children’s homes to retirement homes. Our goal is to come along side organizations & amplify their impact for good and the Gospel.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Coup, coo, coo-coo

Thoughts on Honduras from friends there.

In His Hands / En Sus manos;

Kevin S. Abegg

From: Friends

Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 12:26 PM
Subject: coup, coo, coo-coo

Howdy all,
Mmmm, where to begin?
Well, we are safe here in .......... and our streets are fairly quite, for Latin America because no one told the chickens and the dogs!
We now have a nationwide curfew from 9pm-6am. It was effective yesterday and starting again tonight. It really was a good thing that Mel (our ex-president) left, as he broke the law. He and his buddy Hugo Chavez from Venezuela just did not want him to stop being president at the end of the year when his term limit was over. We think this is a good thing.
We have decided to not move tomorrow and not load up the trucks today.
It is not that we enjoy living in an empty house with not fridge, no stove, no washer, no dryer and only 3 office chairs to sit on, it is just that we are unsure of driving across the country and since there is no rush to get there other than some comforts, we thought better safe than sorry.
It is not many times you are given an extra day to pack up a house, so that is good.
We had a HUGE thunder and lightening storm last night which knocked out the electricity around 5pm. It has not fully recovered, as we are in a brown out, but we get electricity a little here and there. Lucky us, it is only our neighborhood.
So, really the fridge, stove, washer and dryer probably would not work anyway!
We had eaten most of our food so we could eat out our last days here, as we love to eat out, but that did not work out so well as everything was closed yesterday. Our great neighbors fed us lunch and dinner!
Our US phone has worked on and off, so we have called the grandmas and the grandpa.
....... said:

Putting 100 monkeys in a room with typewriters for 10,000 hours may not produce Shakespeare, but it will almost certainly produce the international news coverage of the situation in Honduras.

Well put my dear.
So, keeping on praying for us down here. For wisdom when to move, for safety for so many missionaries down here, for Mr Chavez to stay in his own country and not come and visit ours with his army, and for Mrs Clinton to get her facts straight.
Hope your day is dull and boring. It is much more fun.

T.......