Life returning to Argentina

We have returned to NW Argentina.  After finding a new house to rent, we have started exploring our new neighborhood (barrio).  There are many one way streets that are not labeled very clearly (usually with a small arrow on the side of the building/house on the corner).  There are often no street signs at all.  Here are just a couple of streets near our house - no street names, only arrows.

We are living on a hill in our capital city of San Salvador de Jujuy.  We have 3 roads that travel down the hill, but there is also one stairway down the hill.  It has 108 stairs, which isn't that bad on the way down the hill... just on the way back up!  Also, when we have a rain storm, it's a great waterway.

We live near a plaza named the Plaza H. Yrigoyen.  He was a president of Argentina two different times during the 1920's.  As I understand it, his full name was  Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen Alem.   He was considered the "father of the poor" and was a teacher before becoming President.

September 2014 Update

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Itineration reaches "halfway"

We returned to the United States in December 2012.  That seems like so very long ago!  Since then we have covered a lot of miles and visited many of your churches! 

Officially, we are just over halfway done with our 1 year of itineration.  We have started expanding our calendar to include 2014, since our finances appear to need a longer itineration.  We continue to pray for a miracle and for God's will as to where He wants our baby to be born (Argentina or United States). 

We have enjoyed immensely visiting everyone and look forward to the churches that we have on the calendar now!

Schneider Summer Update

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Wichita Falls, Texas

We just had the most wonderful team from Wichita Falls come to join us here in Jujuy for 5 days!  They prayer walked much of our beloved city of San Salvador de Jujuy.  The team also preached at some prayer services and the women's group.  They had a chance to go out to part of the barrio Chijra to the Kid's Club that we are working with... face painting, soccer, singing, drama, etc.  They rocked worship with singers and a keyboard player on Thursday night!  Four people (that we know of) accepted Christ during the time that they were here as a direct connection with their prayers.

We just want to say a HUGE thank you to:  Pastor Tim, Lance, Darrin, Zac, Carson, Christian, Whitney, Courtney, Michelle, Katie, Emily, Kinsley, Mallory, Paige, and Connie (*names are listed intentionally out of order from the picture).  Also a huge thank you to Paola, a student from Mexico who is attending the bible institute in Buenos Aires and agreed to come join the team on their trip.  Thank you to Amber who is interning this summer with a spectacular missionary - B. Tuesday Wilson!  It is because of Tuesday that all of this was possible!

23rd of August

Aliana finally had a chance to perform a dance! This was her first traditional Argentine dance (with her class). She loved it so much that she taught everyone in our family how to do the dance.

Enjoy the video!

Traveling More

We have found that there are quite a few farms just outside of the city that have turkeys in our area. The kids love to see them! We also found a few people having what Heather called (for our kids sake) a cow party. This is our way of saying that they have killed the cow, taken off the hide, and are curing the meat.













Recently we took a few short little day trips near where we live in San Salvador de Jujuy. First we traveled the provincial route 35 (like a state road) to Ocloyas. We had found a little pamphlet in the tourist center that made the road sound intriguing. It was a short route that made a circle back to our town via another provincial route (29). Well... we certainly found the road less traveled! Ocloyas was a very cute little town - only 2 blocks by 2 blocks (plus farms). It is at the end of a road, similar to the roads that dead end into the mountains back in Washington State. When we left town, we wanted to finish the other half of the road. We found 3 gates that needed to opened/closed for livestock. Near where we turned around, there had been a landslide, and part of the road could not be traveled on at all - we are not sure how long the road had been closed, but there were no warning signs. God was faithful (as always) and we had to stop well before we would have been stuck (or possibly sliding off the cliff). He even gave us a great place to turn around! We loved every minute of it - what an adventure!!






























Our second trip was to the provincial route 20 and 20A which goes to Las Capillas, but we never quite made it there. We crossed a dry river bed 4 times before the river started to have water in it. We crossed one last time a little nervously before reaching where these pictures and video were taken. We got out and checked the river throughly and felt like the Holy Spirit said not to cross. So we played, turned around and headed back for home.

















It was a great drive, until our tire gave out. We had a flat (not too unusual) - and happened to be in the middle of no where. But God had a plan.... there were some workers that were logging in the area who were just leaving. We asked them if they could help us because our jack was broken and could not lift our car far enough & our spare tire was flat. They said they could not, but there was a second truck coming behind them. So we waited... and prayed. The second truck had a jack (which by the way is called a gato - or cat here in argentina) and an air compressor. They lifted our car and filled our tire with air. Praise God !!