Hello?

Anyone out there? Sorry for not updating sooner, things have been crazy for the past 2 weeks especially so there was no time for blogging. The girls are out of school and our interns left yesterday...so while the girls are having "reading time" in their room I have a few minutes to update. Here are some bullet points of things we've been up to lately.

*We had a great 6 or 7 weeks with our interns. They worked hard and we enjoyed getting to know them and invest in them. They did great in leading 37 students for one week all over the city- I was really proud of them. I think they would say they have learned so much about God, themselves and others this summer. I pray they are forever changed. We had a few emergencies during the week- I drove a girl to the hospital that was having an asthma attack and it scared me pretty good, not to mention her! I've never witnessed one of those before and I'd be happy to never witness one again. I think it was God's wonderful blessing that I had met this sweet 17 yr old the day before as I met up with her group and hung out with them at a park for a little while. She also shares the same name as one of our girls, so I remembered her well. I was driving as fast as I could and praying out loud over her, it's all I knew to do. I could tell she was scared and so I just said the name of Jesus over and over when I didn't know what to pray. She was okay after being given oxygen and medicine. Then I played "mom" to her and made her a sandwich at my house and lectured her on leaving the country without her inhaler. All is well now and we are Facebook friends. *grin* Another girl hurt her foot and was taken to hospital as well. Other than that, it was a great time. We ended our time with our interns by taking them to a beach house in west Wales, Port Eynon, to be exact. It was cool and overcast but "warm" enough to play in the water.

*School is out until September 7th so that is great! I'm enjoying having the girls home even if it means more squabbles and arguments. Addison is having fun too I think having her sisters around to terrorise, I mean, play with. Our girls had a blast getting to know our interns, or "American friends" as they've always called them. Our weekend at the beach house was really exciting for them since they were around our American friends 24/7 and had lots of attention! The first night we were walking on the beach and the girls were playing at the edge of the water, all was well until Addison got caught up in the moment and dove head first into the little waves. She was just flapping her arms and legs like it was the best thing ever, then she realised she was in her dress and sweatshirt, not her swimsuit, and began to cry. She was also desperate to throw "wocks" (rocks) in the water and would walk around to each intern saying "Addie frow wocks in water?" until someone felt sorry for her and would oblige.

*August is always a quiet month around here, but we welcome it this year! Students are still off uni and not around so it's pretty relaxing for us a whole family. We have some exciting things lined up for the fall so we have lots of prep for that and Marc is preaching at our church this coming Sunday, so we would value your prayers.

How's your summer going?
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