We waiting a long time, through a cold rainy spring and then it happened about two days after summer officially began. We are now enjoying lovely warm weather, Salmon Arm is awash with multi coloured flowers in huge cement flower containers on every street corner, hanging plants of almost every light post downtown, and that’s not even counting the lovely gardens almost everyone resident put in. Our city really is a delightful place to live, and by the amount of traffic and number of vacationers in town, a nice place to visit. We get our fair share of visitors as well. Most come from Alberta, but a few from places further away. Since May our home has been a whirlwind of activity, gardening, entertaining guests, frantically trying to finish some unfinished projects while the weather is nice and the sun stays in the sky till almost midnight, attending grad and various other banquets, taking in family events etc. While we lived in Brazil we often wondered on what our Canadians friends spent their time because they often complained about being so busy … now we know :)
At the moment we have our grandson Russell here helping his grampa finished some projects. I suppose you might say it’s about time we baby-sat one of our grandchildren. He just turned 24 so that’s a good time to have him around, he pitches in and helps get things done, and isn’t much work to have around either. :) He just graduated from engineering and has sent in his application to enlist in the Canadian Navy. He’s busy gearing up for it. Gets up at 5 A.M., cooks himself a hearty breakfast, takes some rest time, and then goes for his 40 min. run. It doesn’t matter where you run in Salmon Arm, it’s either going up or coming down, so he’s found it quite challenging. He working on his ‘chin-ups and push-ups’ getting them up to Navy requirements, and besides, that he follows a strict eating regiment that would do us good to follow, but I’m not sure we have the same determination or will power to carry through with it.
News from Mount Horeb in Brazil is encouraging, the outreach ministry in Cacador is coming along slow but sure, but like every big project we undertake we can only work as fast as funds come. So far God continues to supply the needs through our generous donors. I am enclosing a few pictures for your viewing. Once again the Jireh Foundation sent grants to enable our staff to attend university and get their hard sought after degrees.
They are so grateful for this once in a life-time opportunity. Our first and oldest Brazilian granddaughter Patricia is just going into university to study business administration. Needless to say … we are so proud of her. :)
At the moment we have our grandson Russell here helping his grampa finished some projects. I suppose you might say it’s about time we baby-sat one of our grandchildren. He just turned 24 so that’s a good time to have him around, he pitches in and helps get things done, and isn’t much work to have around either. :) He just graduated from engineering and has sent in his application to enlist in the Canadian Navy. He’s busy gearing up for it. Gets up at 5 A.M., cooks himself a hearty breakfast, takes some rest time, and then goes for his 40 min. run. It doesn’t matter where you run in Salmon Arm, it’s either going up or coming down, so he’s found it quite challenging. He working on his ‘chin-ups and push-ups’ getting them up to Navy requirements, and besides, that he follows a strict eating regiment that would do us good to follow, but I’m not sure we have the same determination or will power to carry through with it.
News from Mount Horeb in Brazil is encouraging, the outreach ministry in Cacador is coming along slow but sure, but like every big project we undertake we can only work as fast as funds come. So far God continues to supply the needs through our generous donors. I am enclosing a few pictures for your viewing. Once again the Jireh Foundation sent grants to enable our staff to attend university and get their hard sought after degrees.
They are so grateful for this once in a life-time opportunity. Our first and oldest Brazilian granddaughter Patricia is just going into university to study business administration. Needless to say … we are so proud of her. :)
