When we left Pendleton this morning, the GPS said we should arrive at our destination by sometime after 1:00 pm. It was dark by the time we actually got here, but that was because we made some stops along the way.
Continue readingWe woke up this morning to the sound of gale-force winds and checked the report through the gorge. There are supposed to be heavy winds until maybe 10:00 tomorrow morning, so we made the safe decision to stay put another day. If you could pray about the weather, we’d appreciate it!
This morning, I finally got to see our surroundings in Brigham City, UT. It was beautiful!
Continue reading“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley,” or “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” A line from a Robert Burns poem called “To a Mouse” seems appropriate for today.
Continue readingMark finally got his hotspot working. More on that later!
Continue readingI am having to write this on Mark’s tablet because he still hasn’t been able to get his new Hotspot to work. I’ll keep this brief.
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Mind you, Kader doesn’t have a learner’s permit or a driver’s license yet, but she has plans to do both next month. However, she wants a car to get around in this winter when it’s cold, and we thought it best that Mark go with her now so that he could check the car out for her and make sure it was good.
Continue readingYesterday, the first of our Turkish kids to leave was Aleyna. We don’t know if she’ll be returning next summer or not. The others took her to the airport in Chicago and she flew back to Istanbul.
Continue readingA friend of mine at church, Kathy Rimsha, has been teaching Sunday School lessons to the handful of children at Friends Community Church for the last year. A month or so ago, she told me she was going to have to cancel for a couple of months as her daughter was undergoing radiation for breast cancer and her family didn’t want her to be exposed to any illness the children might be carrying, especially the coronavirus.
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