Two Cute Vaqueros

Jose and Leo, two boys from church, are the same age as Taylor and LiAnne, but a few inches taller. They enjoy playing.

Lancy--Visa arrived

Lancy just heard today that her visa to Thailand arrived! Apparently missionary visas are not easy to get, but her co-workers, Jeff and Jessica, received theirs a couple of weeks ago, and now Lancy's arrived.

Lancy is currently in southern California visiting churches and her Aunt Robin and Uncle Dale. She will be flying up to Boise to visit the Kull grandparents in a couple of weeks, and then flying off to Thailand. She hopes to leave around the
19th of February.

What Happened to January??

Like you, I wonder how January slipped by so quickly? Things are very slowly getting back in gear here in Bernal. It seems that people are having a hard time returning from holidays and getting back to the normal.

We are excited to say that the walls of the Sunday School rooms are starting to go up. We have the block, cement and roofing for the rooms, so we wanted to get started. We don't have enough money for labor, so all of it will have to be volunteer work by church people. This past week Ciro and Lolita, and Richard, MinMin and I got some work done. Richard, Lolita, MinMin and I hauled 9 tons of block from the front yard where it had been delivered to the back yard or upstairs. Ciro started to lay the block.

We are hoping to have a small team of men here from Kansas in March, so would like to have the walls up by then so that they can help get the roofing done.

Church Christmas Party--more pictures

Church Christmas Party

Saturday night the church group got together for our Christmas party. In years gone by we have always had a potluck dinner of typical Mexican dishes, but this time the ladies wanted to do something different, so we had a hamburger fry. I made potato salad, we had chips and pop, and then coffee and a banana split cake for dessert.

Everyone had fun with the games, and especially the piñata. MinMin really enjoyed the piñata--she took to it like she had done it forever! It was hard to get good pictures with everyone moving about, but I'll post what I do have.

Ladies Christmas Party

A couple of weeks ago Martha and I were talking about some of the ladies who came to our painting class in years gone by. Though we often run into some of them, others we had not seen in awhile. We decided that we would have a Christmas party and invite them to come. We took invitations around to as many as we could find, and left invitations with those who thought they could tell another.

Last night we had 10 ladies here at our home for a time of visiting, an evangelistic devotional and good desserts. Both Martha and I had our cameras, but neither of us remembered to take pictures. All seemed to listen carefully to the devotional, and one lady, Nancy, said afterwards that she would like to talk more.

I made peach crisp, a brownie, banana and pudding cake, and apple pizza, and most of the ladies tried all three! I must say that they tasted pretty good. At the end of the evening a couple of the ladies said that they wanted to get together again next week, and make sure that they got the word out to the other ladies. This time they would organize it so that everyone was assigned to bring something, and that way it is more likely that they will not miss. So, we'll see if that happens.

Please be praying for Nancy, a young mother of a one year old boy, whose husband has just left her.

Two Months Ago Today.....

we met our daughter, Janelle MinMin at the Civil Affairs Office in Guangzhou, China. As most of you know, that was not an easy day for her, nor were the days to follow. It is so amazing to see the difference now, two months later. MinMin is a happy girl, is learning English, loves her brother and sister, and is happy to have big sister, Lancy, visiting right now. Though the beginning was hard, and we wondered how things were going to work out, we never doubted that God had chosen MinMin to be our daughter.

Four years ago this week we were first challenged by God to bring home another child for our family. It was not something that we had planned to do. Maybe there is someone, even one family, reading this post today who God would call to adopt. Watch the video that follows and be OPEN to God's still small voice calling you.....