Karen

Yesterday I had the neatest thing happen to me. It led me to realize how small the world is with Christ.

We had arrived at church for soulwinning and there was another missionary family there. They are the Pilalas family going to start churches abroad for the US military. We seemed to get along good and were talking as we looked over the bulletin board. She found a brochure for Ladies Conference in Lancaster, CA where her Pastor's wife was speaking and showed me her picture. I told her that we had visited her church while I was on tour group and I had stayed at someone's home on base. She said that she thought it was her. I told her that it wasn't because the family that I stayed with only had two or three kids and they have six.

She laughed and told me that two years after I had stayed at her house (her husband was out of the country) they adopted three kids. Talk about small world. I told her everything I remembered about staying at her house and she was amazed at some of the small things that I remembered that she had forgotten. I remembered how she took us to the Jelly Belly factory. It was so much fun.

They were even thinking of going to the military base in Honduras to start a work, but decided against it when they heard that military dependents don't get sent to Honduras and personnel are only stationed there for 6 months.

We had a great time of fellowship. It was like meeting a friend from long ago. What a blessing to see her again.

Jordan Update:

He is learning not to hit, spit on, or call girls names (unfortunately the hard way)

Joey Update:

He still is not potty training (I am not ready for the stress while travelling). He is learning to talk really well. Yesterday he said, "I like this song".

Audrey Update:

She is starting 1st grade tomorrow (we are starting early to allow for a few days off for conferences) and is very excited. She has started going up during the invitation with me to pray. Normally she prays for her friends in Honduras, but today she prayed for her to learn a lot in school this year.