A Historical Week

This has been a week!

A historical week. The US has elected it's first Afro-American president! Wow!

We talked with our kids, I just love our kids, they are the best...I miss them terribly. They are doing well. Praise God for skype!!!

We got tickets this week for Beki to come here for Christmas. Both Beki and Parker will be here. Laurel and Trent will celebrate Christmas with family in Oregon. It will be the first time that we are not all together over the holidays. But, it is a good thing...

Some of our things made their way here! We are so excited, but, sad to say, we didn't ask for the box that our winter coats were in...oh, no! Thankfully, it isn't freezing cold outside yet, we will see about getting the rest of our things sometime soon-ish. When I packed up our things, I never really thought that we would get our things in installments, so...

We are still praying and trying to meet people. This is proving to be tougher than I had thought. Would you please join us in prayer? God has a plan, He knows the end of the story, we can trust Him.

We had the opportunity to spend a whole day with our landlady, waiting for some work to be done on our place. It was a great time of talking, laughing and drinking tea. We have really good landlords and we have had the opportunity to get to know them more this past week.

We talk daily with one of the little grandmas that sells food outside our building. Jerry gave her a Bible last week, she gave us some walnuts and apples in return. She speaks Ukranian, I am thinking of asking her to show me how to make some Ukranian food and teach me some Ukranian too. We will see if this would be something that she would be interested in?

We have hung up ads for conversational English help with our phone number. So far no one has called.

Please pray for us as we try to meet our neighbors and make some friends. Our home is a bit more homey now, I am ready to invite new friends over...we just need to make some. We are not discouraged yet. We need to pray more.

Thanks for reading our blog, it is fun to hear from you too, thanks for writing and encouraging us. Thanks for praying with us too. This is most important!

(This picture is of us on Jerry's birthday, last Friday. We went to see the Mother Ukraine park. Did you know that there are catacombs in Kiev? We went to see them as well. It is really fascinating.)

~Kim