Ah, a bright blue sky during a wintery day on campus! Can't wait to see that again soon!!!
-Re-organized our huge closets. Though our apartment is tiny, there is certainly no lack of storage. Unfortunately, throwing miscellaneous items in there when we moved in was all too easy, but we have a great system now. Thanks, pretty clearance baskets from Target!
-We officially settled in a church! I know I have said this in the past about another church, but that one didn't work out as well as we had hoped, mostly due to the distance. We starting going to the Evangelical Free Church of Libertyville two weeks ago after a lot of discussion and prayer. So far, so good.
-Finally, Aaron and I have health insurance. Hoorah! This was an item that had me nervous for a while--Aaron hadn't been insured since he graduated college, and my individual plan was pretty...cheap. We finally enrolled in Trinity's student health plan, which means we really have no excuse to avoid going to get our check-ups.
On a completely different note, last night we watched Late Show w/ David Letterman and Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon, and they both had their respective "animal guys" on, which stirred up in me the desire to go to the zoo, buy a hedgehog, or become a zoologist, as it usually does. I mean, look at this thing!
It's called a bearcat. No, really, it is. Jack Hanna brought it onto Letterman's show and told Dave that bearcats walk around cobras quickly in order to make the snakes dizzy before the bearcat attacks the snake. So cool! To me, anyway. Consider this your animal trivia fix for the winter...
Off to eat a midday snack. BONUS.
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Hola! I am so excited you updated the blog. Kurt and I both read it as often as something appears here. We feel at least a little more part of your lives from a distance :-) I was reading your blog on the Trinity site about churches and have to say I totally agree. A lot of your observations are things I have had to realize in being here and being a church planter. It's hard to leave the home and family church you've always known and felt such comfort, accountability, and stability in. Here, its so crazy sometimes working with brand new Christians, teaching them what a church is, and having that be your only church family. It is a great blessing, but so often we both miss the accountability and mature Christian fellowship we had with the churches we grew up in . I am so happy you guys have found that again. I can't wait to be home just for that--to go to church and also be ministered to, to be fed on a deep level, to be prayed for, and to have that mature level of accountability...I crave that here!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the cold and snow for us, I (Bethany) miss it for sure. Kurt might not so much :-) We hope to be home by end of Feb...please pray for that! We will definitely come see you guys and Ben and Ashley once we get home. Also thanks for the thank you note...mexico mail finally got it to our mailbox about 2 weeks ago :-)