What a week

This week has been a little unusual, even more then most. Kirk and I started Arabic back, and we are working on getting a good schedule in place. He is going to the school in the mornings and my teacher comes here in the afternoons. In the mornings i'm homeschooling and then around lunch time we have a lady from Ethiopia that comes and helps with the kids. When she gets here we both go out to his office and study, lucky it is two rooms, so we have our own space and there is a place for me and my teacher when she gets here. This has worked pretty well. It gives us both some time and a place to study and me time in the morning to teach our children. Kirk is still working with the same teacher, but I have a new lady. The first few days were really hard as we got to know each other and she kind of started getting a feel for where I am in my language. The last couple of days were better as we told stories of our families and just got to kind of know each other. This is good and hard. Her marriage is not the best, she has been married about a year, and of course it was arranged. She had never seen him, nor he her. She seems like a pretty hard worker and from everything I can gather about him, he does nothing really. He has a taxi but didn't work last week because he said it was too dusty. She gets really tired of taking care of him and getting nothing in return. When the Father isn't in it, I don't see how a marriage ever works. It is so hard to sit and listen and not know what to say to comfort. Then she sees what a good husband and father Kirk is and I know she wants that. Of course, it did give me some opportunity to share which is great. Also everyday she asked what I did the day before, so one day this week I was telling her that I read to the kids at night and she asked me what and so I was able to share the story of the 5 loaves and 2 fish. Please remember her and ask that I would have the opportunity to share many stories in the weeks to come. It works great because she gets to hear the story and I get to learn how to tell it even better!

This week has also been different because of things happening here. For security reasons our movements around the city have been very limited. Its only been one week and it is already a little tiring to have to stay close to home. So you can also be remembering me. We do have great neighbors and so that has been nice since i'm not really leaving the neighborhood. Kirk said again today, "The Father really knew which house we needed." Thankful we have a Father that knows the future and is not surprised by what is happening. He knew two years ago that this was the house for us and the neighborhood we needed to be in. So thankful we serve an Awesome God!!!