¡Feliz Día de Acción de Gracias Canadiense!

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Day! We are all a little jealous about your turkey and pumpkin pie. I can almost imagine the taste of whip-cream! We're thinking of you this weekend; hoping that you enjoy some extra time with close friends and family. Pray for our extended families, as we miss them even a little bit more during these times of traditional family gathering.

We went on an adventure-filled hike near San Jose, yesterday. It is the rainy season here, so the conditions were wet and slippery!! We crossed FIVE boisterously flowing rivers. Sometimes our very path was a river. We hiked UP to a cross that can be seen from our spanish language school. The hike took a lot longer than we'd anticipated. We took our first city bus at 5:45am, and finally got back to our area of the city at 4pm. The long story is quite humorous, now that we're dry and fed.

We appreciate your prayers, tomorrow, as we venture back across the city of San Jose, this time to the Ecuador embassy. We've received new paperwork from the lawyer for One Mission Society in Ecuador. So we'll take that paperwork to the embassy in the morning, in the hopes of being granted missionary visas for our family. The trip to the embassy involves at least two buses and two taxis. We took paperwork there a few weeks ago, and are now heading there with more paperwork. Please pray that this will go smoothly, as we do not want to have to go to Quito to sort out visas, after we get to Ecuador!!!

This week is our last week of language classes. We continue to have a lot of daily homework and tests! We have met lovely people down here, that we will be be saying "good-bye" to, and this is tough (especially on the children). We are so very excited about moving on to Ecuador and being put to use there. We've been praying about heading to Camp Pallatanga, Ecuador since missionfest in February of 2010. We appreciate your prayers in the upcoming few weeks, as we uproot our family again, and transition to another new environment. Our visas were meant to be active beginning November 4th, so we're making good use of the "in between time" to see a bit of Costa Rica, then do a trek in Peru. We even have a friend from Canada meeting us in Peru. It will be lovely to have this adventure together; it also offers us an opportunity to practice our spanish and get acclimatized to the high altitude. But all five of us are really looking forward to getting to the family camp where we will be volunteering for the rest of the year.

We so appreciate your prayers! We encourage you to send us an e-mail some time this week, as we're not sure when we'll have access to internet once we move out of this little green house, on Friday, October 21st. Blessings to you! Love from the Murrays. murraymomelk@gmail.com