Last week we had another garage sale at Doug's house. There were about 9 different families that contributed to the sale. Not to mention the 2 families that helped out by watching our kids the whole time. Thanks, everybody. I am always amazed at how the body of Christ works. So many different people all helping out together can really accomplish big things. Praise God! La semana pasada tuvimos otra venta de yarda a la casa de Doug. Habia 9 familias que den por la venta. Y tambien, habia 2 familias que ayudaron con nuestros ninos durante la venta. Gracias a todos. Siempre estoy pasmado con el cuerpo de Cristo. Muchas personas trabajando juntos pueden realizar cosas grandes. !Gloria a Dios!

Tomorrow we are getting together with Brian and Betty VanderKodde and their kids. They are missionaries in Lima, Peru that we are going to work with for our first 2 years in Peru. They are on furlough in the U.S. with their 3 kids. My daughter is excited to meet them, she's been drawing a picture for them as a present, and counting the days until they come. It will be very good to talk with them and plan our coming to Peru. We are planning on leaving for Peru as full time missionaries in June, 2007, a little more than 7 months from now. Manana vamos a visitar con Brian y Betty y sus ninos. Mi hija esta emocionada conocerlos, ha estado dibujando una pictura por ellos por un regalo. Ella esta contando los dias hasta vienen. Va a estar muy bien hablar con ellos y hacer planos con cuando vamos a llegar en Peru. Queremos salir por Peru en junio, 2007, un poquito mas que 7 meses de ahora.

News Noticias

Today we had a marriage conference at the church. There were some great testimonies. We had a lot of laughs, too. Thanks everybody for helping out with all the kids!! Hoy tuvimos una conferencia por los matrimonios a la iglesia. Hay unos testimonios buenos. Nos divertimos, y reimos mucho tambien. !Gracias a todos por ayudando con todos los ninos!


Yesterday was Kilaine's birthday. She turned 5. We had just the family over. It was a nice time. Ayer fue el cumpleanos de Kilaine. Cumplio 5 anos. Nuestro familia vino a casa. Fue un buen rato.

We are continuing to get the house ready to sell in January. Last week we had a new door put on in our kitchen. We haven't finished it yet, you can still see outside! Estamos continuando hacer lista la casa por veniendo en enero. La semana pasada, pusimos un nueva puerta en la cocina. Ya no terminado, !todavia puede ver afuera!

Getting ready Haciendo preparaciones

We have been getting ready for Peru. We're almost done with our informational brochure that tells about our mission to Peru. Yay! The kids had fun going and getting their passports done. And it's exciting to sell some of our furniture and things. We're having another yard sale on Oct. 21 at Doug's house (he went with us to Peru last summer). Thanks Doug! The other major thing we are working on is getting our house ready to sell. We want to put it on the market in January. Hopefully it will sell pretty quickly (by April). Then, we intend to do the bulk of our support raising from Jan. to around April. There is a missionary training school that lasts 3 weeks in Mexico that we intend to go to also. It's from April 22 to May 11. (That's why we want the house to be already sold). We are planning to leave for Lima, Peru sometime in June.

Brian and Betty Vander Kodde will be here soon on furlough. They are the missionaries in Peru that we are going to serve with. We are going to get to visit with them and talk about us serving in Peru. I'm really excited to see them.

Our regular ministries are continuing well. We will begin to step down from some of them around January in order to spend more time studying spanish and doing other things to get ready to move to Peru.

Hemos estado haciendo preparaciones por mudandose a Peru. Casi terminamos con nuestro papel informacional sobre nuestro mision en Peru. !Yupi! Los ninos tuve divertido haciendo sus pasaportes. Y esta emocionado vendiendo nuestro mueble y otras cosas. Tuvimos otro vende en el 21 de octubre a la casa de Doug (el fue con nosotros a Peru el verano pasado). !Gracias, Doug! Tambien, estamos trabajando en nuestra casa para que sea listo por vendiendolo. Comenzamos a venderlo en enero. Esperamos que venda pronto (antes de abril). Luego, levantamos fondos de enero hasta abril. Hay una escuela misionera en Mexico por 3 semanas, de abril 22 hasta mayo 11, que queremos asistir. (Por eso queremos la casa sea vendido antes de abril.) Hacimos planes salir por Lima, Peru en junio.

Brian y Betty Vander Kodde estaran aqui pronto por furlough (no se que palabra en espanol). Ellos son los misioneros en Peru que quien estaremos trabajar. Visitaremos con ellos y hablamos sobre los planes por Peru. Estoy muy emocionada verlos.

Nuestro ministerios regulares esta continuando bien. Dejamos de trabajar unos do los ministerios en enero para que pasemos mas tiempo estudiando espanol y haciendo otras cosas para sea listo mudarse a Peru.

...Whew! That was hard!...