Close to my heart!

We are here! All four members of our family (five if you count Josie) are here safe in Arizona. Abby, Kelcy and I have been here for two weeks now. It seems like no time has passed. I have limited access to the internet right now, so I cannot type to my heart's content. I have lots of material prepared for when I can spend some time typing into the blog.

Short story version:

Abby Kelcy and I arrived on August 9 via the Phoenix airport. It was a wonderful reuniting with Jerry, whom we all missed terribly. We moved into our trailer, which was still under a great deal of construction. As I write, the "large" construction has all been finished and we are working on the small projects. One of the projects is killing all the bugs in the house, but more about that later.

Church has been great we have attended two Sundays. The first Sunday there were about seven or eight Navajo in attendance. The second Sunday, there were about 15 in attendance. I have heard that now that school starts attendance will pick-up. Jerry is teaching 7 & 8 grade classes. Jerry is also driving one of the school bus routes to pick-up the children in the morning and return them in the afternoon. I am working at the mission in the office, updating the bookkeeping and working on budgets. Jerry will soon (Sept 18th?) start teaching the adult Sunday School class at church and I will start teaching the 2nd grade and up childrens Sunday School class.

Abby is doing great in school. Miss Springer says she should be reading by Christmas. She is so excited and was trying to read the signs on the way into town today. Abby and Kelcy are here with Jerry in the kids department at the library. Kelcy is also doing great. She is adapting to wearing shoes, an adjustment as we all know.

I will write more later, but I had better go for now. Please excuse any misspellings, as I will not be able to edit this listing for a while.

Continue to pray for us! God is at work here and I believe he has great things in store for the Church and the School.

Also, the gas bill is very expensive to run the two bus routes for school and the two bus routes for church. If anyone is able to, please pray about helping Navajo Trails Mission with that.