Here is Sadie enjoying here treat:
Narah and Cori gave Jonathan a hard time by singing "Frosty the Snow Man" in his ears. You can tell he really loves it.
Narah and Sadie are now quite good friends. It's fun to listen to Narah fuss at and scold Sadie in Mongolian. Sadie just loves her. Narah helped Renee' to prepare the meal and even helped clean up the kitchen. Sadie did not help so much.
Renee' made a pretty good list of the things we are truly grateful for in her Blog below. I just wanted to add a few more things - some quite similar, some a little different, all can be found in our newsletter. We are so glad to know where every gift comes from.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
(James 1:17 ESV)
-The boxes we have received (right now we only need three more and they’ll all be here!)
-Youth Group for MK’s in UB
-A nice place to live
-Technology that enables us to stay in touch with friends and family (Skype)
-Our puppy Sadie (when she stays out of the trash and doesn’t bite while we’re tying our shoes)
-New friends and colleagues
-Guitar lessons (for Jonathan)
-New beginnings
-Chocolate
-Our new Mongolian friends, Baldoo and Narah
-A new coffee house 100 meters from our home
-Weekends and other breaks from school
-A relationship with God based on the blood and cross of Christ and not on how well one is doing in language study
-The fact that we can be together as a family
-The climate (cold weather with low humidity)
-God’s gracious years of preparation
-Friends at home who are faithful prayer partners
Thank you all for partnering with us!