CAMPING 🏕 FUN

We finally got out of Texas and headed to Kentucky where Shawn and Carla Estes live after moving from Mexico 🇲🇽. We attended church with them and then we golfed. They had a roof project that needed to be done so we tore the existing roof off and hoped to put the new one on before the rain but it poured for several hours before we could even start. We covered what we could inside, mostly Shawn's tools. Mathew and I put the new roof on the next morning. Nothing like putting a black metal roof on in summer. It was hot and I was exhausted.  We stayed another day, toured a local underground cave and golfed again. We so enjoyed our stay there.

  We headed to our daughter Kristin's place at Shafer Lake in Indiana. Paula and I set up camp at a local campground and spent the next few days there swimming and again, a round of golf ⛳, and the huge amusement park there kept us busy. So much fun enjoying our time with Kris, Larry and Lea. We left in time Sunday morning to make it to Moraine Valley Church for the service and the church picnic. We set up the camper in Kristin and Larry's yard where they had an electric hookup installed 😀. 

  We were able to a few if our support team at church, and we had dinner with a couple one night and I golfed with 7 guys from church. Now we are in Wisconsin camping with some of the family and thier friends.  All tole, I think there's about 40 of us here for the weekend  at a Yogi 🐻  park. Lots to do here.

  On a sad note, a friend of ours has dementia and Alzeimer and Paula has been spending a few days a week with her. Her husband has asked that Paula stay with her next week as well because she really enjoys Paula's company so our trip to western Illinois will have to wait until we return next month.

  That's about all I can share right now, I think it time to take the kids to Yogi Bear lagoon. 😆 🤣 😂 😹. 

WE ARE TRYING!!!!!

Normally by this time in the year, we are in Illinois enjoying time with family and friends.  The camper is loaded and ready and we are as well. But the delay is one of concern for Paula's health. Even though she feels fine, our cardiologist has some concern about some blockage that might need to be addressed before we travel. Following a CT SCAN last week and no urgency to act, a follow up appointment is tomorrow and then we'll see what happens next. We're trusting God for a good report. 

  Two birthdays 🎂last week at Melodys Orphanage, Gil, pronounced Hill, turned 4 and Jaimes son Andres turned 16. We drove over for both parties 🥳, who wouldn't? 

  A load of pinto beans was donated to the ministry last week and arrived on Wed. Unloading was not a joyful experience because it is hot hot hot 🔥here. Thanks to Semco Corp for allowing us to store the beans there and helping unload. Thanks to a few people and Power Ministry for helping with the trucking costs. With fuel being much more expensive 😩 it has almost doubled the cost for transportation from Idaho to here. But God Provides. 

  The border situation is a mess as I'm sure you have heard. We see it first hand, and trust me, your not seeing it as a true humanitarian crisis it really is. In Mexico, thousands of people from all over the world are being held up by cartels until they can pay them to get them across. Yesterday Andres told me of a friend of ours that has helped us build houses, paid the cartel over 5000 dollars to get him to Houston where he's been promised a job paying over 1000 dollars a week. That's 10 times more than he earned in Mexico. 

  Your generosity keeps us keeping on. Things are so much different since China unleashed the virus on the world. We continue to watch God provide us with the resources to meet the needs of the orphanages

and the colonia. We have a few trips planned into the interior of Mexico 🇲🇽 when we return Lord Willing!!