Thanks to my parents, Leonard and Sharon Nelson, I will be spending my spring break driving around El Salvador with Walter.  It’s been almost two years (or more) since I’ve visited, a fact that is only contributing to the excitement.  How funny it is that I have grown so fond of a country and culture that at one time appeared so strange that it frightened me.

First on the agenda will be visiting many of TLAU’s completed projects that I have yet to see.  Many of the projects have been inaugurated already, but Salvadorans are so hospitable that I’m bound to receive a welcome I definitely don’t deserve.

I will also meet many others who have benefitted from your generosity in other ways, such as the becados and their families.  And adding to the excitement, Walter informed me that I’ll be meeting Msgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, the archbishop of El Salvador.  (I hope I can muster enough courage to kiss his ring).

With the help of my youngest brother Jeffrey, who is visiting for the first time, I’m hoping to take many pictures and a few videos while I’m there.  Keep us in your prayers, and as always, stay tuned through the newsfeed–I’ve made a resolution to be more diligent with the postings.