Roma
has always had a burden to see people have access to the word of God. When we
returned home from Haiti we did some inquiring and searching for Haitian
Bibles. Last week a package arrived with 100 French New Testaments that were
given to us free of charge! We were SO excited! They are on their way to the
missionary couple in Florida, and they will disperse them in Haiti on their
next trip. Beni swa Letènel!
As
a complete side note, our family received some effects from Hurricane Sandy on
Monday. What we received was mild compared to what many others are experiencing
on the East coast, but we’ve still had some unusual weather. We had very strong
winds all day on Monday with the gusts increasing into the evening. We took
down our flag pole around 9:00 p.m. because we were afraid it was going to snap
again (it happened earlier this year.) Part of a gutter was also blowing in the
neighbor’s yard.
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This morning we woke
up to snow falling! Pretty crazy for this time of year in Michigan.
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As you can see, our
porch decorations and furniture didn’t do so well against the winds.
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More snow/sleet on
the deck.
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Sorry this picture is
blurry from the rain on the window, but you can see the accumulation of snow in
the yard.
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Thankfully
we have not lost power nor had any other serious consequences of the storm. We
would have been extra disappointed to have the power go out since our fridge
just got fixed yesterday and had finally gotten down to the correct
temperature!
We
were a bit concerned because this morning, our gas fireplace upstairs wasn’t
working. If the power went out, that would be our only source of heat. It
appeared that the pilot light had been blown out by all the wind during the
night. We were finally able to ignite the pilot light after a conversation with
Dad on the phone and by consulting the little instruction sheet attached to the
controls. It always makes us ladies feel good when we figure out how to fix
things like that. J
*Have you experienced
any effects from Hurricane Sandy? Have you seen any snow where you live?*
Yay for the bibles! :)
ReplyDelete"Hurricane" Sandy was like a thunderstorm at our house. :( We get pretty excited about the chance of having a hurricane -especially this one which was predicted to be as bad as hurricane Isabel, if not worse. Isabel took down a bridge near us along with lots of trees near or around our house, so we figured Sandy would be pretty exciting. :) Instead we had (sorta) heavy rains for approx. 2-3 days with maybe about 20 mph winds (I don't know for sure I wasn't outside the whole time ;). No trees down (that we know of at our house), no damaging winds, and we still have power! :) I guess that is a blessing- seeing as our cow Halle had her calf (whom we named "Sandy" for obvious reasons) during hurricane Sandy. :)
I'm glad y'all are safe, though- I know there are plenty of people without electricity or even homes- so we are truly blessed! :)
I'm glad to hear that your family hasn't felt any serious effects from the Hurricane, Alexis! I can see how it would be a little disappointing not to have as big of a storm, but I'd be really thankful that it wasn't as bad as anticipated!
ReplyDeleteThat's exciting about your new calf! And I love the name. :-)
~Bianca