Clay Pots ~ Dancing, Paychecks, and Earthquakes

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ala with her scriptures, drum and smile!

Ala used to be able to walk with the help of 2 sticks but now the disease has completely taken over in the past couple weeks and she can no longer walk at all. Her only desire is that she would never miss a believer’s meeting on Thursdays. So 2 ladies carried her all the way down from the village to our place for the believer’s meeting this past week. Her smile never faded from the moment they put her down to the moment they carried her back up to the village. She led the singing with her homemade drum and listened intently to every word Jason said. One man went to tell her what a tremendous testimony she is to everyone by her contagious joy despite her circumstances. She just smiled and said , “I am ready to go to heaven and see my Jesus”. I don’t think it will be very long until Ala will be dancing in heaven with her Savior, on an eternal Thanksgiving Day!

We celebrated an awesomely relaxing Thanksgiving day last Friday with our partners. It included Jason and Jason playing football with the kids (speaking of football is there any one out there who has taped any of the Packer games? We are “dying” out here without our green and gold fix!) , lots of food, a nap, Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving movie, and lots of laughter! So what were we thankful for?!! YOU !! (After my cute husband of course). We are very privileged to have a “job” where our paycheck comes from people who care for us. Thank you for being sensitive to His leading and willing to make that sacrifice for us and the Tobo church. We celebrated you on Thanksgiving!

Last week we experienced a HUGE earthquake. From what we have been told it registered a 6.7 on the scale. We were scared and, excuse the pun, very shook up! We raced outside with the kids as things started to fall around us inside the house. Thankfully no one was hurt, though our house needs some extra TLC after it. As Malachi said during it, “God is SO big!” Sometimes we need those little reminders of our God’s incredible power.

We hope you find lots of things to be thankful for in the days following Thanksgiving, a reason to say your God is SO big, and a DVD recorder to send us Packer games!