I know....I know....."Finally an update!"

Sorry about the delay.  It is still not easy to put updates on our blog/website.  As you may have guessed, we still do not have home phone service nor internet at our house.   Last Thursday, the phone company told us we would have our phone service the next day, September 29th!........then nothing.  So I went in and now they don't even have a date or time of when we should have our phone/internet service!

Each week for the past month in our Sunday morning Bible Studies, Joshua has been highlighting a different foreign country.  He makes a powerpoint presentation and teaches us about that country.  He has been doing this all in French.   At the end of his presentation, he has highlighted several missionary families from that country as well.  Our goal has been to show two things: 1) God loves everyone & 2) Even though these countries are full of "religion", God still sends missionaries to these countries to show them the truth.

Also, each week, Kami has prepared a lunch with dishes from the respective foreign country that we have learned about.  This particular week was a curry chicken dish with "roti" from India.  The meals have been great and everyone seems to enjoy the "foreign" food.  For "India Week" we had a total of 12 in services!

This is Callie's latest "boo-boo".  She got her finger smashed in the bathroom door.  She has had several accidents lately.  The latest of them being when she fell off of a chair she was climbing onto and fell on her face which left a nice little bruise on her forehead.

Our friends in Canada would be so proud of us.  When we left Canada, we brought several packets of "Poutine" seasoning with us.  So 2 weeks ago, we had Poutine night!  Although we didn't have the "squeeky" cheese, we substituted chedder.  It was great!  We love Poutine!

Doesn't it just look like it would clog your arteries?

Continue to keep praying for our family, the ministry, and our passports.  I will post more about this situation later.  Right now only Silas and I have French passports.  We still are needing 5 more.  Thank you all for your prayers and support!

Thank you for praying!

Thank you for praying for Kami.  She is doing better and made it through yesterday with the migraines only returning in the afternoon but not as severe as they have been.  We are hoping that they will not return at all and that she will be able to get back to "normal' life.

Prayer Request for Kami

As many of you know, Kami is expecting a baby due this coming April.  For the past week, she has been having very severe migraines due to the pregnancy.  This is the first pregnancy in which she has had migraines.  They are so severe that any light causes her much pain and yesterday she spent much of the day crying due to the pain.  The midwife said that the migraines should hopefully begin to decrease around 13 weeks of pregnancy.  Kami is only in her 10th to 11th week.  Please pray along with us that the Lord will take away the migraines and that she can get back to a "normal" life.....if there is a "normal" life for a missionary wife!

Finally an update!

I am finally getting a chance to post an update on a few things from over the past couple of weeks.  The first major thing is that we still do not have phone nor internet service.  Thus it is not always easy to post updates on our blog website.  Hopefully soon we will be able to get our home phone and internet service set up.

So Here Goes The Update!

-Kami made it back from her trip to Florida.  She accomplished quite a bit while in Florida.  Brenna was able to get (very much needed) glasses.  Now she can see more than 5 feet without squinting!  Elisabeth was able to have her appointment with the orthodontist and had her MARA appliance removed.  The dentist added some more brackets and she will need to return in October for a much needed adjustment at that time.  Kami had a doctor's appointment and she was able to see the heartbeat of our new baby via ultrasound.  Both Momma and baby are well. 

-Upon Kami's return, she had a bit of trouble.  The airline made her purchase return tickets for her and each of the girls or they would not let her board the plane.  It does hurt having to purchase $1,000 worth of tickets right on the spot just so she and the girls could get back here.  However, the tickets are not a big waste as she purchased them for October 22 in which she, Elisabeth, and Callie will be returning to accomplish getting Kami's VISA and Beth's next orthodontist appointment.  Once they were on the plane, it was delayed for 2 hours and then they changed planes altogether.  It was a long day but they finally made it back "home"!

-We have managed two tropical storms here in the past two weeks.  All is well but the storms passed through on Sundays.  Although we were able to still have our services for our family, we could not pick up the ladies that normally come.  When there is a code red for the approaching storm, you are not allowed out of your home and thus we are stuck inside until the code "red" is lifted.  So hopefully we will be back on track for this coming Sunday.

-Our final shipment of 12 boxes of our household things was shipped and will be arriving this week.  We praise the Lord for being able to finally get all of our things that we wanted and needed.  In this shipment is all of the kids' schooling for this year.  They are each excited about this coming school year (which mom and dad are a bit shocked about!).   The thing they said they are most excited about is being able to accomplish school in one place each day without traveling every day or having to do their school in the van!