Hi Everyone --

This has been a quiet week -- especially after last week and all our John Deere visitors! We do appreciate them and their conversation and taking us out to dinner. We also enjoy taking them out to shop and explore the "real" part of India.

The biggest news this week is that our good friends are leaving to go back to the US. This has been very quick in happening and very sad! It's hard to explain why the first ones here aren't the first ones to go home. It just doesn't work that way! So we're trying to regroup, rethink our remaining time here, and make it as bearable as possible.

To help with this, we had Snickers milkshakes for dinner one night. We also went out for Papa John's pizza. These things do help! We also have Brice coming on Wednesday (Aug. 5) to distract us for 3 weeks. I'm not sure he realizes how much work he has in front of him! We are planning a small trip to Mahabaleshwar about 2 hours from Pune in the mountains. We're also planning another R&R trip for this fall. We can make it! We just finished July, and that's another month down! We can do hard things!

We had 7 at church today and had fast and testimony meeting. Hannah does a great job playing the hymns on the keyboard. We sang a new song today I had never even heard before.

We were able to find another plumber to get the outside toilet fixed (this is the guard's toilet). We still don't have the skylight fixed in the guest bathroom, maybe when Brice is here we can get that done. The mirror and frame are fixed and rehung. We're watching the cistern tank out back for random overflowing (the ball valve is a bit touchy right now). Other than that, as long as it doesn't rain, we have no leaks!

Hannah took her Interior Design final this week. That's another class down! She is working on 3 right now -- BYU freshman English, BYU American Heritage, and 2nd semester Algebra II. We've lost the books for English. They were shipped a month ago and everyone claims they were put on Doug's desk. Unfortunately, there are no books in our possession. We've check back along the pipeline -- in Moline, DHL, John Deere India, etc. Nothing. We will reorder the books tomorrow.

We hope everyone is fine and doing well! We love and miss you all!
Love, Lucinda