Togo is located east of Ghana and west of Benin in western Africa

Togo is located east of Ghana and west of Benin in western Africa
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

September to December

A summary-

Again, I haven’t written a post for awhile.  First, because I’m pregnant and tired ALL THE TIME.  Second, because the last months have been quite depressing.  Our truck has had all kinds of problems, at one point, leaving us without a vehicle for over a week.  We couldn’t seem to get the go ahead on the house we want to move into.  Everything is always breaking.  There’s always lots of bugs in the house.  The Internet stinks.  The water goes out for a couple days, as well as the electricity going in and out.  I could go into detail on all these things, but that would just be more depressing.  So I’ll skip the depressing months and look forward to what I can only hope to be our crazy busy months before heading to the United States for furlough…  January, fix up the house.  February, get settled in at the house.  March, get ready for furlough.  Amongst our normal school routine and being pregnant.  We can do this!

A little more on the house-

We originally planned to stay in our current house for 18 months until another certain house opened up, but after finding out this other house wouldn’t be available, we began looking at other options.  When I first saw the house we are now fixing up, I was quite disappointed, it’s in disrepair and would need a lot of work.  Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of houses to choose from in Dapaong.  This particular house is in a good location in so far as Internet, water, electricity, American friends, and CLET are concerned and is a good size for our family.  I quickly changed my mind and began thinking of how we could fix it up.  The second time I saw the house, after 6 months of waiting on the owner to sign a contract, I was again disappointed, but now we’ve put so many months and thoughts into it and have the keys that we can’t really turn back now.  It’s finally time to “flip that house”!  I hope and pray it looks completely different in 1 month.  Please pray things go smoothly (this will take a lot of prayers, because rarely do things go smoothly it seems), so that I’ll be excited to share before and after pictures in my next post.

Baby update-

We saw our healthy baby via ultrasound 2 days before Christmas.  We were hoping to share with grandparents on Christmas whether they have another granddaughter or grandson, but unfortunately we couldn’t get a clear enough picture to tell.  Maybe this will be our first surprise baby.


Christmas fun with friends-

A fellow LCMS missionary family from Ghana, the McDermotts, came all the way up to Dapaong for Christmas.  Our kids have loved spending time with them (and so have we).  Although the long, napless days have been tiring for this pregnant lady - from playing at the CLET to swimming, decorating Christmas cookies, (long) church services, and enjoying playing with Christmas presents with each other - they had a blast and will miss their new friends.





The Good News-

Our Savior was born on Christmas day to come and take our sins away.  No matter how bad our days seem to get in this sin filled world, we can rejoice in knowing that Christ was born to die for us and rise in victory to forgive all our sins.  Joy to the world, the Lord is come!