Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Today we were greeted with more of seasonal type temperatures. The thermometer hovered at about 10 degrees. The cooler temperatures made it much easier for Roger to work outside at cutting and hauling wood.

The day was spent with schooling, making bread (actually rolls, and they weren’t bad! ), playing outside, writing letters and gathering the mail. We received two packages today!  A friend from college, Kelly Herring, answered my plea for baby wipes and sent up a box…thank-you!  Also, we received a package from the Mayo family with various food items. Yay for something new to cook! 

Roger was gone for most of the day helping a man get more wood from the airport pile. This man and Roger loaded one trailer for the man’s house and another trailer load for our house. So, with the wood we cut from the burned area as well as the wood from the airport pile, I think we’ll have plenty until we leave.

We are having the teacher and family for dinner tomorrow night, Lord willing. They weren’t able to come last week, so we are trying again for tomorrow night. We are looking forward to getting to know them better.

We will probably wrap up today with a trip to the washateria. It would be nice to get at least one load of laundry done, and Roger needs to shower as he was working hard moving, cutting, and hauling wood!

Prayer Requests:

-We have a busy remainder of this week with having people to dinner on Thursday and Friday. I’m also having the girls over again on Friday morning. Pray that these will be good opportunities to know these people better and that we’ll have some good times of fellowship.

-Continue to pray for wisdom and direction for our family. We’ve learned a lot on this trip, but are asking the Lord to continue to give us clear direction.

-The trappers and mushers could still use more snow to effectively use their snow machines and dog sleds. Please pray that God would allow more snow to fall in the Manley area

As always, we appreciate your prayers. Sarah