Our Thanks

This Thanksgiving we feel we have a lot to be thankful for...so we thought we'd do the second-grader type thing and compile a list of all of our thankfuls:

First and foremost, we're thankful for our Father & his Son. He's called us to a remote place where everything else in our lives seems very different except Him.

We're thankful for our families & friends of course. Though we haven't seen their beautiful faces in a few months they are the most special people to us on the planet. We miss you and we hope you ate a lot of Thanksgiving goodness on our behalf!!


We're thankful for eachother. We're so thankful for this time in our lives. If we were in the U.S. we'd each have our own job to get up and go to each day, but here our job is the same and we get to spend almost every hour of every day together. It's been the best thing for our marriage; going through culture shock together.

We're thankful that this Thanksgiving we were able to eat Turkey! After tracking one down in our recent nearby city trip we found a hotel here in town with an oven big enough to fit it in so that we had some turkey to eat in celebration of Thanksgiving day.

We're thankful for our teammates here who made it truly feel like Thanksgiving. It felt so much like thanksgiving that when we went outside to go home we were shocked to still be here!

We're thankful for the men who dig through our trash every day because it reminds us not to be wasteful.

We're thankful that we found real fresh cow's milk at Fu Mart! Makes cereal so much better!

We're thankful for our teachers because learning the language on our own would be soooo much harder!

We're thankful for our pr supporters back home because we know that the reason good things are happening here is because of their petitions!

We're thankful that the postal system does work (even though it took over three months to get one airmailed letter.) But most of the mail does come on time!

We're thankful for the water man who so promptly brings us clean water when we call him, even when we accidentally call him on his day off.

We could probably go on and on about things that we're thankful for...but we won't.
Hope your Thanksgiving was as fun as ours! Tell us what your thankful for!