Stubbornness Can Be A Blessing

I tend to be stubborn at times, but today, my persistence was a hero for one little boy.

We were given a gift basket last night from the church. Inside was a lot of wonderful things for us. One of the things that was given was a small green train for Matthew. He wanted to sleep with it, but we wouldn't let him. This morning, when he woke up we couldn't find it. He slept in late this morning as he fell off the bed in the middle of the night and took a little while to calm down. When he finally got up, the maid was already here. The maid and I looked everywhere, but to no avail. After she left I continued to look and still couldn't find it. I finally went down the hall and asked the maid if I could look in our trash. I found the train under several layers of trash. It was covered with leftover cereal and milk. I was so excited that I had finally found it. I made me remember the story of the woman in the New Testament who hunted for a lost coin and finally found it.

Matthew's reaction when I came back in the room with the train was priceless. He was so excited. In case you were wondering; yes, I cleaned it before I gave it back to him. :-) Today I am thankful for my "persistent" tendencies.

Many miles travelled

The last few weeks have been anything but boring. We are thankful for the good times that God has given us in many new churches. It has been great to meet and get to know many more precious Christians. We are praising the Lord for the one new church's support that has come in since my last post. We enjoyed spending time in a few supporting churches. We were able to report back to them what God has done with their investment into His work.

While we are travelling we have many hours in the van, but when we stop at some place for a few days we try to get out and do fun things with the kids. We were able to spend almost two weeks at a supporting church in the Baltimore area. We got to spend three days doing the tourist stuff. We spent two days in Washington DC. One of those days we had a shaking experience. We were in the Museum of American History when the 5.9 earthquake hit. Being the observant person that I am I didn't notice the swaying of the items on display until the big jolt came. At the beginning we weren't sure if the jolt was an earthquake or a bomb. It was so short. Thankfully there were no problems. We spent the rest of the day outside and walked to see the White House, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, Korean War Memorial, and WWII Memorial. The White House and Lincoln Memorial were closed, but we got to see them from a distance. It just made me more eager to go back to DC someday and see things again.

Last Monday we left Ohio to head west again. At the time of this posting we are in Utah. It is a blessing to see how God is moving in this town. God is moving. We were able to talk to a hispanic man in Del Taco. We spoke in Spanish and felt great freedom to say what we wanted. When we left we gave him a tract and pray that he will read it and will accept Christ as his personal saviour.

We will be in Utah until Tuesday and then we start a road trip for Billings, Montana. We will then be coming back to Utah and then on to Arizona. In the many miles travelled, God has been so good to us. Please pray with us that our support level will continue to increase.