Trials of Life

This weekend was not the weekend that we had planned. Friday was all around a bad day!! A really bad day!!! It was one of the days that if it could go wrong it did..well almost. The trials started early at work when the phone lines went down. While the quiet was nice it did create an atmosphere of chaos as managers tried to find the cause of the problem. It turned out that a major line had been cut at a construction site causing the phone lines to be down over a five mile radius.

When I took my lunch break to take Scott to work the battery light in the car went on. So after dropping him off at work I stopped to have it tested only to find out that the alternator was bad. Fortunately it lasted until I got home. But died completely at 1:00 am when I went to pick Scott up from the airport. The Lord enabled us to drive the car to the employee parking lot and we awaited our wonderful neighbor to come and pick us up. We are so blessed to have such a caring neighbor to come and get us at 1:30 in the morning!!! Thank You Jean!!!

Saturday my mom gave Scott and I rides to work and then me home again. In the end Scott ended up using one of their extra cars. The girls and I were stranded at home for the day which made for a long day.....we had plans for the evening and were disappointed to cancel. But we are rejoicing as Scott with the help of a co-worker was able to get the car fixed in between flights and we were able to go to church on Sunday!!!

Saturday was a tough day for Shoko as she was very homesick and cried most of the day. She was missing her first host family in Arizona. But Sunday she was doing much better and seems to be adapting well to our family. She is a really sweet girl.

Tomorrow Scott's parents are arriving for a short visit. It has been over a year since they last visited so we eagerly anticipating their arrival.

While the weekend was not the one we had planned and it seemed as if everything happened at once, we saw God's grace and mercy and we know that trials come to develop character in us and for us to lean on God for our strength.

It's a girl!!

Our family has changed alot in the last couple of hours. Tuesday evening we recieved a phone call asking us if we would like to host another Japanese girl. She was arriving that evening and had no home. We talked it over and decided that we would host again this year. So she arrived at our home this evening. Her name is Shoko. She has been here for about an hour and we are enjoying helping her get settled in and getting to know her. I think she will fit into our family quite well.

Otherwise not much is happening except that I have been trying so hard to upload some pictures, but so far it is to no avail. Hopefully soon I will get it figured out and you can see about our life as well as read about it.