Mail!!

I was so excited today when Jeff and Judy brought over mail for Elizabeth and I!!! I got 2 packages and 4 letters from my beloved friends and family back home. To be in a foreign country and to receive any indication that those I've left behind miss me is truly a spirit booster!!

Thank you, Jenna-Wade, for the wonderful chocolate chip cookies that you baked me!!! They still tasted great even if they were a little bit smooshed. :)

Thanks mommy and daddy for the letters and gifts that you sent me, too. :) I loooove them! ;) (In case anyone was wondering, I DO have the best parents in the world.) :)

Thanks Gayle and Susan for the cards of encouragement that you sent me. It's wonderful to have women in my life who are there to offer me wisdom in the areas of life that they've had more time to experience than I have. :) You have no idea how much you mean to me.

OK. Almost time to get ready for Conversation Club. Hasta Mañana. :)

"Every time I think of you, I thank my God. And whenever I mention you in my prayers, it makes me happy. This is because you have taken part with me in spreading the good news from the first day you heard about it. God is the one who began this good work in you, and I am certain that he won't stop before it is complete on the day that Christ Jesus returns.

You have a special place in my heart. So it is only natural for me to feel the way I do. All of you have helped in the work that God has given me, as I defend the good news and tell about it here in jail. God himself knows how much I want to see you. He knows that I care for you in the same way that Christ Jesus does." Philippians 1:3-8

(This was Paul's prayer to the church in Philippi and my prayer for you.)

Katrina