so richly blessed..

This week has been a fast one! Jeremy has had a few big tests this week and I had one today and we are both ready for a break. We actually have the whole week off next week to catch up on reading and get ahead on some school work and we are looking forward to it. These last few weeks have been so amazing! I can't even begin to express how much God has blessed our lives through Sunset. It is so wonderful to be around people who want nothing more than to glorify God and to do his will. Our instructors are some of the most Godly minded men i have ever meet. They not only teach the Bible but they help you to see it in ways that you never thought possible. They make the word come to life.
I am so thankful that God is so Mighty and powerful. he is our Rock and our Salvation. He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is our protector and Healer. He is our Father and our Teacher. He is our one true Love. We are so richly blessed!!

yay for Chinese food!

The second week of school was pretty busy. Jeremy has been reading and studying his little head off! I think we are finally getting a routine down. Yesterday we had our first cultural experience in Lubbock with our friends Ken and Debbie from China. They had us and another another couple named Crissy and Robin over for a authentic Chinese meal. As we came into their home we took off our shoes and had a seat on the couch. Debbie served us green tea and fruit and explained to us that in China this is how you would start a meal if you were to have guests over. Next came to food and let me tell you it was great! We each had a bowl of rice and the main dishes were served family style in the middle of the table so you could just take what you wanted and put it in your bowl. We had a vegetable and chicken dish, Potatoes that were in strips and cooked in oil, spicy green beans, and eggs with tomato. They taught us how to eat with chop sticks and that was quite comical! But more that the food was the fellowship. Ken and Debbie were so sweet and hospitable to us. They have so many amazing stories of their life in China and how they came to be Christians. This is their first time outside of China and they are excited to get to know us and our culture. Please pray for them that they will have a smooth transition here and that they will continue to learn and grow in Christ. I will try in the next post to have a picture up of all of us eating with our chopsticks, it is funny!

first week down, many more to go...

We made it through our first week of classes without any major fiascoes so i think the school year will be really good. We had orientation on Monday and Tuesday and then classes started on Wednesday. Jeremy has a full class schedule where as i am only going to take classes part time. Jeremy will be taking Christian Evidences, Old Testament, Spiritual Disciplines, Life of Jesus, and Intro to Ministry Studies. I am taking Spiritual Disciplines, Public Speaking, Survey of the Bible, and Creative Hospitality. We are going to be pretty busy! There are about 4o or so people in out class and they are all so wonderful. I know that God put such a diverse group of people together so that we can learn from each other. We had the privilege to hear a little bit about how everyone came to this point in their lives.. God had done such amazing things in order to get people here! We are very excited to get to know our classmates and we already know that we have made some life long Friends. Please pray for us over these next few weeks because they are going to be pretty busy. Please pray that we will stay focused not not forget the reason we are here and that is to serve God.

Crazy times ahead....

Well, we start school tomorrow. We have been waiting for so long it is almost hard to believe it is finally here. It has been amazing to see how God has had His hand in this from the very beginning. Just thinking back on the time that we first talked about it and all the way up until now we know for sure that God has led us to this point. He has shown over and over through our fund raising and our move that this is where He wants us to be. Please pray for Jeremy through these first few weeks because it is going to be pretty busy getting to know the new routine of school. God is so amazing and we are so richly blessed.

Carlsbad Caverns

We had a very fun filled day at the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico yesterday. We went with Matt ant Christi Cameron and we all had a blast! Jeremy and I had never been before and we are very gald that we went. The cavern is so insanley large! We went 750 feet under the earth and it was down right chilly in there. I have never been inside something so huge in my life, God's creation is so awesome!

we have an offer!

We got an offer on our house today! We got the call today and looked over the offer and then made our counter offer and then they made another offer and then we said OK . ( that's totally confusing right?) Anyway, that's pretty exciting for us because we don't want to pay a house payment and an apartment payment for any longer than we have to. So that is about the only really exciting thing that has gone on this week so far. We of course have enjoying our life of leisure before school starts (we have to start getting out of bed before 10 this week). Anyway, we start at SIBI on the 13th so now we have a week to get school supplies and all that jazz. Please pray that everything on the house goes smoothly.