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A New Number

  Today begins the use of a new number - 58!  Hope I can remember it!  I had a hard time piping up with 57 all during the past year.  Just couldn't seem to remember.  But here we are. My mother was out shopping when she felt it was time to go to the hospital, and I like to shop!  She ate a tuna fish sandwich if I'm not mistaken before she went to the hospital, I like tuna fish!  That story may have been before my brother was born. My mother loves the Lord and enjoyed many years of telling children about Jesus.  I like that, too! I'm glad my birthday fell on a Monday.  It's my day "off" from our missionary-ing.  Today I plan on a simple lunch and tackling some much needed laundry.  But I woke up early with a desire to write just a little.   As a girl I knew that being a missionary was my life's call.  I've done so many different types of work since coming to Brazil.  What I'm doing now is what I had always envisio...

October Video Letter

  Time for a new video letter from Gramma Michele in Brazil.  Get your popcorn and put on some warm socks, unless your watching in Brazil!  Then you may want some ice cream instead!

An Old Prayer

  I draw prayers!  It's a method called Umbrella Prayers!  I'll leave the link at the bottom of this little post.  Recently I was going through my prayer notebook/coloring pad and came upon this one.  Each prayer focuses on an attribute of God.  This one was a look at Eternal.  I didn't do a lot of doodling or embellishing here, just listed the names and a little detail of my concern for each person. The yellow highlights are from last week when I came upon this page again.  It was originally made in 2021 if I'm not mistaken.  Something cool about keeping a prayer journal of any sort is being able to go back and see how God worked in that situation.   Some prayers seem to never really get a specific answer from our Lord - like a request for world peace in times like today.  But it was a joy to see how God had worked in regards to the points of this prayer, and is still working.  God is in control.   Sometimes we ...