It is hot...as in tropical-heat hot outside! It is only supposed to get hotter as summer rages on. Our A/C in our car has a leak and hasn't worked since this past December. It wasn't bad during the Winter & Spring months, but we sure are feeling it right now!
Our updates have been mostly about Kami for the past few months and it does seem as if our lives have been put 'on-hold' since Kami became sick back in February. We miss her so much! It has not been easy for Daddy to make sure that all the chores are done each day, that all made-from-scratch meals are ready to go each day, that the grocery shopping is done each week, that bills are paid, that the little ones get their showers, and that my messages are prepared for Sunday Bible studies. No wonder God said that it is not good for man to be alone!
Well, here are a few updates...
School
- The kids have all finished school and mailed in their grades to Lighthouse Christian Academy. They have successfully completed last year! Yeah! We now have 3 high-schoolers in our home!
We have ordered their schooling for next year and they will arrive at my mom's address in Florida. Our hopes is to pay for an extra suitcase to fill with the school materials that Kami can bring back with her when she comes back home. (This way we wouldn't have to pay for a large shipping cost to get them here.)
Gospel Distribution
- We have passed out 1,241 of our Gospel packets directly into mailboxes on our island. We load up a couple kids into the car, armed with a shopping bag filled with packets that contain a copy of John & Romans, a Gospel Tract, and an invitation to our Sunday Bible studies. Then we drive up & down our mountain roads and let a kid jump out to put a packet into a mailbox. Finding mailboxes can be a chore in itself. There are no addresses here and an assortment of mailboxes can be attached to fences, rock walls, trees, posts, telephone poles, gates, or even just set on the ground. They could be in a driveway or on the side of the road. It can be a chore just to find them! It wasn't too bad today except for the heat. You see, the best time to get out and do this is between 1:30-3:00 p.m. in the afternoon. Not that we love riding in a hot car...but because the roads are safer to do this at this time because people are at home taking their afternoon "sieste". At other times it is just to dangerous with all the cars zipping by on the mountains.
Kami
- At Kami's last visit with the doctor, the vascular doctor told her that all 3 of the last tests came back fine. So Kami mentioned that we have had several missionaries tell us about checking for Lyme Disease. (We had mentioned this to the doctor here on our island and he just laughed it off.) The vascular doctor was shocked that Kami had not been checked for this yet. She told Kami that all of her symptoms are those associated with Lyme Disease. So we were able to get Kami to the Blood Lab at closing time on Wednesday for a Lyme Disease test. We will not know the results until next Monday or Tuesday.
Please keep praying for our family during this trial of having Momma away. We are all ready to get back to a sense of "normal"...what ever that may be!
Until next time...
