Funny phone call

Scotty and I have a Vonage phone here in Bolivia that has a Gainesville, FL number- we keep it in our office. We are here a bit late this afternoon and received a call that we thought was one of those recorded calls you get at dinner time from companies trying to sell you junk (believe it or not, we can't remember what these calls are called- having not experienced them for so long)- it was from Secure Comfort. We let it go to answering machine and a nice woman with a southern accent came on letting Crystal know her pillows had come in and so Scotty picked up the phone to tell her she had the wrong number. She asked again about Crystal and Scotty told her this is a vonage phone that reaches us in Bolivia- no Crystal. She started laughing and told the person next to her that this customer was trying to tell her she's reaching people in Bolivia. I'm not sure the internet phone thing totally connected with her. Scotty convinced her that it was true and explained that we have a Gainesville number since that's where I'm from, but that we're missionaries in Bolivia. Then she got real interested and asked what it's like here. Scotty wasn't quite sure how to answer that question in one sentence but politely had a little chat with her before she was ready to let him off the phone. Strange.

So last night we had our friends over for dinner- the Ramirez family. We really like the Ramirez' and I realized last night that although we have a lot of Bolivian families over to our house, there are few that we really feel as comfortable with and seem to enjoy as much as this family. I think it's mostly a matter of time before we connect on a deeper level with some others, but it's always been so easy to enjoy Ericka and Hugo and their 2 boys. They are a down-to-earth couple that love taking hikes and eating picnics and Ericka even lived in my hometown for a year when she was in high school as part of a student exchange program. It's so important to us to have this type of friendship where you can call whenever and know that if you burn the food a little or have a flake-out, can't-speak-Spanish moment, they won't care and neither will you. I pray we will grow to have more friends like this.