A Sunny Day

Dear Everybody,

We have had three sunny days in a row!  That is saying something for how far south we live.  Our winter months are mostly wet but when the sun does come out, the green south of Chile is beautiful!  Because it was dry today, the guys decided to tackle the leaks in the main meeting hall roof.  A hall runs between our kitchen building and the large meeting hall.  The roof of the hall has four skylights which were leaking pretty bad.  So after getting a list of materials from Miguel, Danny and the boys went shopping in Villarrica and then worked on replacing the faulty skylights.

main building roof on the left and kitchen roof on the right, hall down the middle in between

Miguel is replacing the old fiberglass skylights with polycarbonate.

When Danny was up on the roof, he also oiled and straightened the weather vane that sits atop the fireplace.  On the hood of the fireplace he saw the dates 1969 and 1970.  We asume that is when the building was started and completed.  There is a nice view from that high up.

I couldn't take the pictures this time so Danny did since he was up there.

lakeside view

weathervane

Can you make out the numbers?

Miguel also fixed the bathroom located by the kitchen and spent a few hours raking.  Raking on camp is a huge job.  Of course, camps looks so much better with the leaves picked up, but we mainly make the extra effort to help the grass grow come spring.

We will be having Andy and Kolette and family over for the weekend so I was busy straightening up the house, getting the guest room ready for visitors.  I spent some time working with Morgan on her school work and reading to Madeline.  After lunch it was the boys' turn to work on school.  Both of them are needing more help in math and spelling.  I'll take spelling over math any day especially when the one deals with fractions!!!!  Oh well, I am thankful I can handle 3rd and 4th grade math still!

When the guys got done outside on the roof, Danny came inside and worked on replacing the silicone seal around our bathtub.  After four years of use, it was pretty nasty.  It looks so nice now.  He also put a coat of paint on the stains on the ceiling.  The bathroom looks really nice now.

Matthias helped Danny take the old silicone off.

and the new stuff goes on...

Maddie was there too!

Soon, I will be sticking some homemade bread in the oven and getting some soup on for supper so I better wrap this blog post up and get to work.  Thank you for your prayers for our family and ministry.

Liz

Back to Normal

Dear Everybody,

Today felt like we could finally get back to somewhat of a routine.

We had a wonderful conference in Santiago at Camp Pirque.  We had set for ourselves some objectives and God graciously allowed usto reach those objectives.  We look forward to working more with the Pirque Camp team and the Peniel Camp team in the near future.

Unfortunately during our time there, Madeline came down with a "complicated" cold.  At least that's what the doctor called it when we took her to the local clinic.  We had three bad nights with her and during the days she pretty much just layed in our arms.  Not much fun, but she is feeling much better now.

A day after getting home we headed to Temuco to welcome, Andy and Kolette Thompson to their new assignement at the Bible Institute.  Danny's brother will be replacing Daryl and Earlynne as they furlough in the States for 4 months.  Andy and Kolette have three kids the same ages as ours so the cousins had sooooo much fun together.

Friday was pretty quiet with just the normal school schedule and getting ready for Sunday messages.  Saturday, we had the visit of a UCB pastor who is helping preach and teach at the Lican UCB church.  He is helping in three other churches in the area so can only come and teach in Lican once a month.  He asked if Danny would be willing to preach on one of the other Sundays and if I could teach a children's Sunday school class.  So the third Sunday of each month Danny will preach and teach before we head up to Liquine for their mid-afternoon service.  We are glad we have the God given Strength and time to serve the Lord in this way.  There are many churches in the area without good teaching!

Yesterday, we worshipped with the church in Liquine.  They are truly a blessing to our family!

Today, Miguel got back and as I wrote earlier it really felt like we were able to go back to a routine.  We did some cleaning in the house.  Danny vacuumed all our beams in the main room.  We also raked all the leaves in the back yard and some on camp also.  I worked with the kids on school and kept Maddie out of trouble.  Sorry no pictures but soon we will start work back up on camp and there will be plenty to write and send pictures about.

Thank you for your prayers for our family.

Liz