Hey, everybody! Are you praying for an apartment for us in Madrid? If not, get goin’! If you are, “Thank You!” and please keep it up!!! We saw another apartment this evening and we really liked it. It’s around 1000 sq.’, 3 bdrms., 2 bths. (perfect for church planting and visitors!!!), tankless hot water, includes 1 parking space, the condo costs, a storage space off the garage, AIR CONDITIONING(!!!!) and the appliances. It has laminate wood floors, is in a fairly new building (just 3-yrs.old), decent views, updated windows that are more energy efficient, bathrooms with marble, a great front door that couldn’t be broken into without removing the entire wall, crown molding in the living room – this may be way too luxurious for missionaries!!! We have an offer written up and hope to send it tonight if we get the “OK” from the powers that be. Please pray that if this is the building and apartment where God wants us to live that the owner would accept our offer. Thank you so much for all of the prayers and responses we’ve received. You are too sweet! All our love, Scott and Lorna P.S. We miss you!
Thank you for all of the inquiries about the apartment! You have been super faithful in praying for us, writing us, encouraging us and just being there for us. We appreciate your love so much. So, do you want to know what happened with the apartment situation??? We goooot it, we goooot it, we goooot it, we goooot it (you have to say that with rhythm and a little hip action) !!!!!!! God is so good!!! When times get tough here in Spain, please remind us how many prayers He has answered and how He has confirmed His plan for us here. We met with the owners of the apartment Monday morning before leaving for Seville and they wanted us to be their renters as much as we wanted to be their renters. Did that change the amount we’re going to be paying? No, not one dime or should I say, euro . . . but it did change the date we’ll be moving in. They decided to move out so we could move in the beginning of August. We’ll stay one more week with Samuel and Viviana, one week on a mini-retreat with TEAM-Spain missionaries (camping!?!? Yikes =( Please remember to pray for me!!!) and then one more week back with Samuel and Viviana. Then we’ll be in our own apartment and on our own. Isn’t that greeeeaaaaat!!!! Thank you so much for your prayers. It’s been so fun house hunting with you, thanks for your help. And it’s been amazing to see God’s hand at work in the process.
Speaking of “God’s hand at work”, we went to Seville Monday to turn our papers in to the government for residency. In the afternoon we boarded the bullet train (very cool), arrived within 2 hours (normally, a 6-hour drive) and were in line on Tuesday morning with our documents. We planned 3 days for the process . . . just in case, but by noon we had already received our residency!!! In 45 days we’ll need to return for the official, more permanent card. God did it in record time, what a huge blessing! Again, thanks for your prayers . . . that weren’t specifically for our residency, but God knew.
We’ll write more about our first impressions of Spain and the “World Champions” later, but we wanted to let you know how gracious God has been in the last ten days. Has it only been ten days since we left?????? Guau (wow)!!!
Thank s again for your prayers! Love you all!
Scott and Lorna
