Ok, so I’m not going to win any art awards, but surely you can tell which one of us is which. Just for fun I made some desktop wallpaper out of these little pictures. Check it out!
It really is the little things. You may remember our adventures last year – a little tiny latch on our van broke, and caused a lot of trouble!
Our van is once again having "little" problems. This time it was the driver side seat belt. The latch was getting a little worn, and was coming loose. Obviously, this could render the seat belt useless, so we took it in to be looked at.
How much did we spend fixing the problem? Over $200! And the mechanic was generous enough not to charge us for all the labour time. Ouch!
There also seems to be a problem with one of the doors, and it looks like we may need a couple of new tires. We need your prayers as we deal with these little things.
These days we’re enjoying some good little things too. Hannah and I made a pomander yesterday, a fun Christmas activity for us. Today we’re looking forward to seeing some of Shari’s family, including the smallest member Ashlyn. We weren’t sure that Shari’s parents were going to be joining us, but they have arrived. The weather is cooling off (it was around 15C/60F earlier this week, but today only 8C/46F), but probably not cool enough for snow. But that’s a typical Calgary Christmas.
We hope you’re having a great weekend, enjoying the good little things and trusting God in the bad little things (and big ones too!).
We just enjoyed a visit from Grandpa and Grandma Cottrill. We celebrated an early Christmas, and tonight we even went for a swim.
Grandma Cottrill is an animal lover, so here are a few links in her honour. These are the kind of links you’re likely to see in our Random Link of the Moment (as soon on our home page and other pages too). But this time, I thought I’d introduce a few in my blog.
First, here’s a fairly new blog site that is rapidly becoming very popular on the net – check out Cute Overload 😉 for really cute animal pictures – yikes!
Next, check out the video of this rather intelligent parrot – Einstein, as seen on Animal Planet.
Make your own weird and wonderful animals at SwitchZoo.
Finally, some of my favourite animal photos from our own photo album –
Audio clips from Hannah and Nathanael at our church Christmas Banquet on Friday, December 16th.
As missionaries, we have several churches that we stay in touch with. These churches are like a part of our family – we think about them often, visit when we can, pray for them. We’re excited when we hear good news, and pray when we know the church is going through a difficult time.
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But every once in a while we go to visit a church and wonder – will anyone really remember us? Are they praying? Do they ever look at that letter on their bulletin board?
That’s why it’s such an encouragement to go to a church like Innisfail Baptist Church. We had such a warm welcome, and great conversation with people who were really interested in Mexico and really concerned for us and the Mexican people. We had a wonderful visit, even though it was short, renewed some acquaintances, and fellowshiped with some friends at lunch.
We got home in time to eat a sandwich or two (barely!) and then we went to our own church for the Christmas program. Hannah was a Christmas angel this year. Then we had some more time to fellowship over some home made goodies that people had brought.
It was a great day, looking back, although as you may imagine by the end of the day we were really ready for a long winter’s nap!
There are some more pictures of Hannah in the Christmas program in our photo album.