Here is the third part of Nate’s story. In this section, he mentions that the VHS band won state. He is referring to his school, Vernonia High School, and the band he is in that won a statewide school band competition last year. His original school was flooded and while a new one was being built, classes were held in modular buildings. He refers to that in this section too. Continue reading
Here is the second part in a series guest blog by my 14 year old nephew, Nate. The first part was basically a description of modern day Kenya and his first impressions upon arriving there. This section begins his mission work as part of the education team that went over. Continue reading
I have been talking about trying to get a guest blog from either my sister, Lauryn, or my 14 year old nephew, Nate, about their mission trip to Africa in August. My nephew finally sent me his story. It’s rather lengthy, so I’m going to do it as a series for a few days. The following is Nate’s story, in his own words: Continue reading
My mother, both sisters, and one of my brother-in-laws came down yesterday for a 2 1/2 day visit. They arrived last evening and made dinner for us at our place. You’ve heard the expression, “Too many cooks spoil the broth.” Well, the broth was fine, but too many cooks in an RV kitchen was kind of tough! We sat around and told stories Continue reading
Four times a year, there’s a day when all those Adopt-a-highway people are supposed to go out and clean their section of highway. Today was the day here. Workampers from the Los Altos Rod and Gun Club are responsible for cleaning Skyline Blvd one mile in each direction from our driveway. I was looking forward to helping with it, but I Continue reading
Mark had to get up extra early for work this morning, so I got up with him. At the last minute I decided to change the order of the churches I still want to visit, and it’s a good thing I did. This morning I drove nearly 50 miles to attend a Mennonite church in San Francisco. As it turns out, if I’d waited till next week, I would have gotten to that address and they wouldn’t have been there! They’re meeting in a park next week. Continue reading
Jamey and Sarah came to spend the night last night. Apparently there is another location on Skyline Blvd with our address and they ended up there first, but they found Alice’s Restaurant which has wifi and were able to look us up by the name of the club. Continue reading
I want to give a shout out to my younger sister, Lauryn, and my 14-year-old nephew, Nate, who just returned home today from a mission trip to Kenya. I hope to get one of them to write a guest blog about their trip. Continue reading