It's been a while since we updated and not much of great significance happened-- but here is a lowdown on some of the semi-interesting (to us) stuff that went on...
We went to Swan River, MB where we went to a fundraiser for the Families Mexico Mission. Leah Penner and some of her friends raised about $590 to go towards providing for the Vision B Orphanage in Tijuana this Christmas. Praise God!
We had lots of desserts, a music recital by the kids and I gave a short picture presentation of our ministry in Mexico. We had a good time!
Next we went to the Nipawin Bible College Alumni retreat for our final weekend in Canada. We enjoyed staying with Wes and diane Fehr and their kids while we were there. It was a little strange at first to stay with our old teacher (10-13 years ago) and not call him "sir" or "Mr. Fehr". After a few minutes of visiting it seemed more like dropping in on old friends and we had a great time.
Our kids got a chance to go snow-sliding as well on the little hill next to the Fehr's home. It's been more than 2 years since they were able to do that and boy were they happy!
Our final speaking engagement was in a small baptist church- Bagley Baptist- in Saskatchewan. We had supper at the parents of our friends in Tisdale, SK (home of Brent Butt!!) They thought they knew where the church was, but didn't really- so off we went with sketchy directions. We got to the grid road and went straight- for abouy 15 minutes, till we relaized we were lost. We asked for directions, which were wrong, and made our way to the Lutheran church!
We turned around, got to a cross roads and took a vote- left or right (kind of a modern Ummim and Thurim) and turned left. We were 10 minutes away from just keeping going on when we came upon the church! We were 15 minutes late so "snuck in" ( 5 people sneaking into the front-ish rows in a church of 20 people, isn't really sneaky). After some songs it was our turn. We couldn't get the video projector to work! So after 10 minutes of fussing with modern technology to no avail we were ready to give up and go with stories, when it started working!
Afterwards we had a lunch at one of the most elaboratly decorated houses (Christmas style) I've ever seen. It was incredible! The kids counted 30+ Christmas trees, dozens of angels and tons of other decorations! It was a good time to visit.
From there we left the snow jus tnorth east of Saskatoon and really didn't see it again! By the time we got to Swift current, we were peeling off our coats to bask in the +6 weather. By Great Falls, Montana, we were almost ready for shorts!
Traffic was good until Salt lake city- and Las vegas and Barstow, CA. The last day we drove was the day before Thanksgiving and traffic was a mess.
We arrived in Santa Clarita, CA to visit with the Sauers- very good friends of the family. They are RV'ing across the US and Canada for a year and are in California now. So we visited with them for US thanksgiving. Tina Sauers put on an increidble supper - unbelievable considering she did it in a camper trailer! We missed the Canadian Turkey day down here and we happy to be able to stuff ourselves to the gills on casseroles, turkey, cranberry sauce and desserts...
We alos went to Santa Monica Pier to see an interesting site- a small theme-park liek place on a pier. It was cool to see, thoigh Jacob was very sad that we were THAT close to a roller coaster, and he couldn't ride it!
We also swam lots in a heated outdoor pool! It likely would not have seemd warm enough to us to go swimming (66F 18C) had we not gone to Canada, but given our wide, climactic travels this month, it seemed very very nice to us!
We arrive back home last night after fighting LA traffic (1 1/2 hours for about 30 miles) and a flat tire! We blew a tire on the fast lane of the highway and had to pull over to the left- only to realize there was not enough room- so with a flat, smoking, tire we crossed 5 lanes of 75MPH traffic to the right shoulder, (Praise God for his protection!) where we found a safe place to change the tire...
We got home by 9pm and ur house was wonderful! one of the local missionary ladies had someone come in to clean it up nicely, so we had a pleasant arrival home. We're very thankful for Miguel, our housesitter, for caring for our animals and house! It is very nice to arrive home to a clean place with everythign still in it!!
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