I was thinking the other day that it had been awhile since I updated. Now I see it's been too long!
The end of November we hosted an American Thanksgiving dinner with the extended family. I (Christine) shared a little of the history of the relationship between the Pilgrims and Native American people. I was greatful to have the opportunity to research it to refresh my memory because there were some interesting questions.
December began with a class closing party for my small group in Mabini and hen we took a break for the rest of the month from class. Although it was a class break the time disappeared. Jun and I did take a weekend away, but that brought us to a new church and relationship. It was a super busy time for Jun who had to actually begin to say no to some things because he had so much with corn harvest and chainsaw work. There were also plenty of parties and even a wedding.
January has brought a lot more already. School started again so I have students coming for modular help. Jun had a few neighbors help with shelling and drying the corn. He has already had half of it ground for selling. Total there is likely to be close to 400 kilos by the time he takes the second batch for grinding! He has also been able to start cutting the lumber for building our house!
Mid January we were able to bless the new church we met with a dozen chairs to upgrade from rough wooden benches. We were also able to spend that weekend in fellowship with them as they requested Jun to preach. We were also blessed to attend the wedding of our nephew!
Next up is preparing for starting regular classes again. Creating a new schedule might be interesting and I'm still not sure what our limitations will be. Please pray that communication with officials is effective and beneficial. The hope is to start again sometime next month.
I will try later this week to post pictures of some of these events!
