Wow, 2 Weeks.....time is flying by!

Thought that I would share what our apartment looks like.......

Kitchen



Living Room



Dining Room



Boy's Room



Boy's Bathroom



Nattalie's Room



Our Room



Girls' Bathroom

The kids are so excited that we have two bathrooms and it was decided early on that one would be for the girls and the other would be for the boys.  Notice the girl's bathroom is a little more decorated than the boy's one.  :)

We are nice and settled in and enjoy our lovely apartment....but after living in a house you for so long you forget some of the things about an apartment.  Like carrying your groceries in..... you carry as many as you can at once so that you don't have to go back out to the car.  :)  Seriously though we are truly blessed with such a nice place to stay while we are here for the training.

The kids and I have been working hard on school.  They are doing more independent studying this year and it is amazing to see their progress already only after two weeks.  Of course we start first thing in the morning, but the things that they do independent they work on how they would like.  Johnathan has actually been getting up earlier than the rest of us to get started.  I am so excited they are dedicated and working hard on their studies.  I pray this enthusiasm remains throughout the entire year.  We are all still working hard on our Greek....we almost have the entire alphabet.  Let's see if I can spell them out for your without looking......
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, Kappa, Lamda, Mu, Nu, Xi, Ompicron, Pi, Rho.....yeah I did it.  The kids can not wait until they can put some words together.

Training is in full force at HBF!  Today is the end of the second week.  John has been learning tons and coming home each night to share with me.  We are so excited about what God has in store for the future and also humbled that God has called us to the amazing task of church planting.

All things are coming together and we will be having small group with our fellow training residents.  We know that building relationships with these families is very important as I am sure we will be in contact and of course praying for each other as we go to our respective cities to begin to reach out to our communities. 

John and I are very excited....we got a message yesterday that we will have a chance to meet the core group from Mason City/Clear Lake the first weekend in October.  They will be coming over to Elgin for the weekend.  Please be praying for us as we begin to build relationships with these families as well. 

Sorry if this blog is a little scattered....I just wanted to share our apartment and also share what is going on.  We thank you all for your continued prayer for our family and also the community of Mason City/Clear Lake.