Only a few days left

We are in the down mode...only a few days left and our son leaves...what a sad thing for us.  He has accomplished SO much while here already.  I think we have worn him out and he is ready for a break and ready to go back and get a REAL job, where they don't work him into exhaustion.  Actually he keeps saying he doesn't think he has done so much, but oh yes, he sure has.  Even though some were little to him, they were huge to us.  We just keep praising God that he was here and helped, but not only that, the time we were able to spend with him was precious to us.  (Oh I know, guys don't want to use that word, but they sure are precious times for us.)

Today is Don's birthday, but we celebrated yesterday, sort of.  At our age, you sort of leave those things behind.  I had a meeting in the morning with the airport officials and heads of other airlines here.  So, Vero and I went in for that and then met the fellows and Abbie after the meeting to have lunch and ice cream to celebrate.  Dale worked all morning until time to leave to meet us, and I think he was sort of reluctant to "leave work" to go play, even for a couple of hours.  

 

 To those of you from our home town, Dale has already taken over a thousand pictures, so ask him to share a "few" with you.  After lunch yesterday, Don took the guys out to the IDADEE orphanage for a visit.  Vero was excited for them to see it again. Notice the kids climbing all over Dale?  He had them hanging on him the whole time out there. (He's the white faced dude in the first picture!)

 

I am only sharing a few photos here with you, but there are MANY, MANY more!!!

Here is Jim, putting strings on our tags for Missionary Flights baggage.  It's time consuming and our guys end up doing it as they put the tags on.  They will be more than pleased to have that done already.

 Dale finally figured out his time was running out and he wouldn't get the tile laid on Vero's house.  So we hired a man to do it for us.  This is happening today.  Dale and Don are both happy with his work and it should be finished before the guys leave!! YEAH!!

 Dale came in with the new converter for the dorm. (Thanks to Chuck O'Connor and TCR).  They have it hooked up and it is working great!!  Teams will sure be pleased it is up and running again!

 Dale caught Savanah is one of her good moods.  She was feeding her baby and wanted a picture of the baby eating!

 Dale was able to put up the tiles we have in the kitchen at Vero's house.  We ran out of the ceiling tiles or he would have had that project done, too.

Last Sunday Dale share at Pastor Codo's church in the morning and then at English Bible Fellowship (EBF) in the afternoon.  We had more positive comments on his message at EBF then I have heard in a long time.  It was a very timely message for all of us.  He will be doing the final one in both services tomorrow.  Everyone is looking forward to it.  Pastor Codo sure loves to have him come and teach, too!!

So there you have a short "catch-up" on what's happened this week.  We will be sad when Tuesday comes around, though.  It's been such a blessing to so many having Dale here.  His knowledge of the language and his love of the people shines in all he does.  And believe me, they all soak it up, including us!!  So we'll ask you all to pray for us as he goes back.  A gap will be there for sure.  The good news is our oldest son is trying to make plans to come down right after summer.  The Lord knows what we need and when we need it, right?  HE is always on time, even if we think He is late, or wrong, HE knows what we need, when we need it, and how to get it to us!!!  God is always faithful and always THERE for us.  And yes, again, HE IS AWESOME!!!!!