The First Two Weeks

The first two weeks have led us to have some pretty funny stories to tell. The first one took place last Sunday when we were getting ready for a ceremony and Mylee had been dying to wear her pretty dress to something. So since we were kind of going to a church service I decided to go ahead and let her do this. I went to get her hose out of her drawer to put on as well because in her mind panty hose always goes with a dress. However I got there only to discover I had only brought a pair of red tights with us instead of the white or pink ones to go with her pink and black pretty dress. I knew we were pretty close to Valentine's Day but not close enough to put red tights with her pink dress. So I had to go with the resources I had. We get to the ceremony and we are all sitting on the floor and the girls are just going where ever. About 20 minutes into it I was trying to get Evie under control while I heard the people behind me snickering. So I looked up to find they were trying to not laugh at Mylee pulling up the suntan knee highs I had put on her instead of the red tights to make them thigh highs on her. I could've died!

The second happened today. Our Sunday morning church consists of our small group meeting together to form kind of like a house church. So the girls are just all over the place and making all kinds of noise. But this is very common in Latin America culture so we just let them. We had finally allowed the girls and the two other children (boys age 6 and 8) go into our apartment to play. We were getting ready to pray our last prayer and Evie comes screaming out of the apartment with her arms above her head with some of my pantyliners in her hands. I guess she was having some fun in the bathroom without our supervision. Once again wishing for a hole in the floor to swallow me up.

Stay tuned for more stories and pics from our time at Oriention.

We made it!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for your prayers! We arrived Monday, February 4, around 5:30pm, very tired and hungry. We arrived to International Learning Center in Rockville (next to Richmond)around 7pm and was able to get a sandwich and some yogurt for the kids and put them to bed around 8pm. We were then able to get unpacked and finished getting settled on Tuesday with a Walmart run with a friend here with a car! I am finally feeling better and gaining a full voice and received my full hearing today...God is good! I have posted a few pictures for you to see our life here at ILC to let you know we are doing great. We arrived with 70 degree weather but saw it will be down in the 30's this weekend. We are definently seeing that spiritual warfare is very real in our lives. Pray that Satan would be defeated.

We are living in what they call a quad. There is a common room and then 5 apartments off of the common room. We have 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, and an eat in kitchen. We also have a sliding patio door that Aaron says goes out to our backyard. Both of the girls have slept all night and we have both slept very well in our beds as well, which is two twin beds pushed together to make a king size bed. We have never had one of those. The girls are free to go in and out of the apartment and play in the common room for a bigger run around area. Stay tuned for more pics about other areas of ILC and different activities that will take place here at our time in Rockville.

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Jan08

Very Busy Weeks

Snow Angel Lessons! Very Busy!

So sorry I didn't get an update done last week. We have been trying to get caught up on reading and traveling issues, that need to be done, to be ready to go. Last weekend we spoke at First Baptist of Springfield, MO and had a wonderful time with the kids there at their missions progressive dinner. It has been so amazing speaking at the 5 churches and seeing the loving openess for us and our ministry.

Yesterday Aaron was ordained and we were commissioned by our home church, Maywood, in Independence. What an amazing evening it was for both of us. We were able to hear special prayers for each of us from friends and family who love and care about us. There were happy and sad tears all over. We each received a Spanish bible to take with us to the field. However we don't know what it says except for the scripture we have memorized. But we know it will come with language training and time. There was an amazing team of men and women who put on a fabulous reception afterwards. What wonderful taco salads we had! Jeanne Blankenship also made us a wonderful cake and boy was it yummy! It was a bittersweet evening with a mixture of excitement to be going, but saddened by the loved friends and family we will leave behind.

As I sit here on Monday, January 21, I look at the calendar to see we fly out in two weeks from today! Mylee will get an airplane ride for her birthday, February 4. I think we are at a pretty good point at being ready to leave. We received our last item in the mail today of supplies we are neeing to take with us! Praise God it all came on time. We have a very busy two more weeks. But, are so excited to see what God will bring in the coming months as we, together, prepare to take the word of God to Mexico.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from the Woods. How quickly the past year went. As we are down to 3 and a half weeks until we depart for Richmond, VA. We look at that number and realize we have tons to still do and not a lot of time. We've done our dentist and eye appointments and ordered supplies off the internet that we need to take with us. Aaron had Lasik eye surgery yesterday. He went in with 20/300 vision and walked out with 20/30 vision and then was reading at the 20/15 line at the eye doctor today. It is amazing how the technology we have today can do so much. He is truly blessed to have had this done, so as to not be dependant on glasses in a foreign place.

We had a very wonderful Christmas spent with family and New Year's with friends. On the 28th we went to Kaleidoscope at Crown Center for a family session. The girls had a lot of fun and we didn't have such a bad time either. Aaron's last day at work was January 2nd. So we have been trying to get caught up with reading the 3 books we have to read before we leave on the 4th. With that among the other items on our very long list of items to do, our stress level goes a little higher.

This past weekend we spoke at Antioch Baptist Church in Greenville, MO. It is located really close to Sedalia. It was a very good visit with me singing a song special and Aaron and I talking about missions and needing prayer support. We will be traveling to Springfield, MO this weekend to do it all over again. Please pray that we will have a successful trip and gain lots of partners for the ministry of Christ. Be Blessed this new year!