What's New This Week

Kelton the pirate...arrgh!

We made a thankful poster at VBS this week. The kids drew pictures of what they are thankful for, and then together we composed a prayer of thanksgiving in the middle.

Aloha! Me and Laura all dressed up for the last LST party that was Hawaiian themed.

Kelton and I played Musical Chairs as one player. This is me "sitting in his lap."

Kelton is riding in a boat in the middle of our bed. I love that kid's imagination!

Ahoy maties! Here we are dressed up for our Pirates of the Caribbean Movie Night

So as you can see, we've up to a lot of things this week! From VBS to themed LST parties, it's been busy! Next week marks our official halfway point, and lots of things are going to change as the LST campaigners from Alabama head home. Laura and I will take on some more LST readers to help with the campaign follow up. We will also get to work on a couple of projects that have been on hold until the LSTers left like organizing the office and working on a mural in the children's area. I'm very excited about the new work, but I'm also sad to see my American friends go.

So my funny story for the week: Our apartment is on the tenth floor, and our bathroom has a window in the shower that we usually keep cracked open a good nine inches to let the breeze filter in. Randy told us never to leave our shampoos on the window ledge because if a strong wind comes, they will blow off. We have been very careful to follow his advice, but today the cleaning lady did not know this tidbit of information, and she put all our products up there to clean the shower floor. When I came into the bathrooom this afternoon, only Laura's shampoo remained on the window ledge. I looked out the window and saw two bottles floating in the pool below. When I went downstairs to fish our conditioners out of the pool, I saw they were the only products that had survived the ten story fall. Both of our containers of body wash and my shampoo were smashed to oblivion on the concrete, and the only evidence left behind was a large puddle of soap and a few plastic shards of the lids. I was slightly annoyed at first, but as my budget has plenty of room to purchase more shampoo and body wash and it was an honest mistake, I just laughed and added the experience to my list of Things that Would Never Happen to Me in Abilene. Hope you enjoyed a little laugh too! :)

Thanks for reading, everyone! Know that I love you and I still covet all your prayers! Ate logo!