Thanks for water control and the building fund...

WATER IN OUR HOUSE UPDATE

Well, last Saturday night after church some of the guys from church came and busted up the floor in Joni's room and made a drainage to the outside wall so the water would go out of the house instead of all over the house. I think the guys really enjoyed using the pickaxe. When they first broke it open the water sprang up like a geyser. It was pretty cool. Joni was away for the weekend when they did this, which was probably for the best. It's not fun watching your own room get destroyed. Joni has had to move to another room, which is a bummer, but at least there's an extra bed in another room for her to go to. This has stopped most of the water from coming in to the other rooms. But now we have an indoor babbling brook, and that's pretty cool. :) I'm not sure when they'll be able to fix her room, they need the weather to dry up some in order to do it. But it has been sunny the past couple days, and that's good.

Other good news about our house: they finished putting the false ceilings in this week, and that has really made the house much cooler in the day and warmer at night. It also cuts down on noise, and makes it feel much more homey. Hooray!

DONATION TO CHURCH BLDG FUND

In other news, we had begun building a new church building on the property about a month ago, where the little cafeteria was, and we had about half the funds for the first building phase. This week, Family Church of West Monroe Louisiana took up an offering for our building fund and the people there donated all that we needed to finish the first phase (about $14,000) and made some pledges on the next phase. THANK YOU FAMILY CHURCH!!!!! THANK YOU LORD!!!!!! It's so exciting that we'll be able to move forward quickly with the building, because our church building is just too small. We use that building for school functions too, and this Friday when we had the talent night for grades K-4, a lot of parents had to stand outside and try to watch through the windows. Below is a picture of some of my first grade students performing in the talent show. They sang "El capitan de mi barco is Cristo" (The captain of my ship is Christ).