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  Sweet Hearts Day Couples Event Sobradinho June 2013 Me and my sweet heart... after 26 years of marriage, we still laugh and know how to have a good time.  I thank the Lord for the man He gave me and hope we can grow old together and enjoy many more good times.

Whenever my Dad is around, he fixes something.  When I was a girl the joke around the house was that "Beck," my Dad, could fix anything at all.  Sometimes it seemed that all he had to do was look at a car and it was miraculously fixed. When Dad comes to Brazil, I try hard to make sure he doesn't have to spend his whole time working and fixing things, but he always manages to squeeze in a few good helpful chores.  Washing machine faucet hook up -  before Daddy fixed it,  I had to fill my machine with buckets and hoses Square cast iron skillet -  Daddy cleaned it up and it hasn't gotten rusty yet Boys' Go Kart -  Daddy helped the boys tune it up,  although the little boys don't fit in it like they did. The best things that Daddy fixes  when ever he is around and about are HEARTS.

See the cute little American fellow in the front row of all these dear folk?  He's smiling. See the one in front of skinny Mama.  He's squalling. We had just finished up a full day of delivering a packet about our church, Faith Baptist Church, in Fortaleza. Church people had really turned out for the event.  There were ladies who cooked lunch for the whole gang. There were kids and teenagers, old people and young couples.  And there was us with our three boys.  We were all tired and hot and needed baths.  We had rallied the people from a church that had gone through a year of turmoil to do something they had never done before.  I don't even see our third boy in this photo.  He was probably hiding somewhere. What about MK boys and girls?   Do they have to help their parents in the Ministry?              Do they have to go to every outreach and every event with a pretty little smile on their...