Answer to Prayer

Wow! I can't belive we are approaching our 5 month mark. At times it feels like I have only been here 5 seconds. At other times it feels like I have been here for 5 years - haha. I think I have pretty much gotten over the initial culture shock, but the missionaries that were already here tell me it never completely goes away. Instead you have periodic "culture days." You know, those days where you can't seem to communicate with anybody, you can't find anything, and you come home at the end of the day frustrated and tired. Wait a minute - I had days like that in the States. What's up with that?! Oh well, I guess when you look at the over all picture, some things are the same everywhere we go (we just get to use fancier names for it overseas)

These past few weeks I have been asking for prayer regarding wisdom on the taking on of additional ministries. Wisdom pertaining to "what kinds?" of ministry and "how much?". During the recent conference we attended, God dropped something in my lap. One of the other missionary families on our team is in need of a homeschool teacher. Their 2 youngest children will not be returning to the school that they are currently at. While the parents are not in language school, they are both actively involved with other ministries, and do not have enough time to do all the teaching themselves. Their son will be going into 4th grade and their daughter will be going into 6th grade.

I do not as yet know when we will be starting to work together (these kids will start the next school year sometime this summer), but in the mean time I will be working with them on the logistics of my working with 2 families. The Caynor's for some time now have also talked about letting their kids have more freedom as they are growing up and do not need much constant "care/teaching" as they are capable of doing almost all their schoolwork on their own, and they are even looking at the possibilities of enrolling Ricky in a school next year so he will have the chance to participate in sports and other extra curricular activities. So my time spent during the week with their kids will most likely shift quite a bit.

Both families are very excited about this next school year, as am I. Who knows what the next few months will bring? God is starting to open the doors for many new and exciting posibilities for all of us. Please continue to uphold us in your prayers as well as this most recent developement. As always please pray that we seek out God's wisdom and guidance as our goal remains to serve Him the best way we can and make the most of where He has placed us.

In Him,

Bethany