It has been awhile since we have posted! It is now a New Year. We have all seen or heard the memes for this year like, “2021 means 2020 won!” or that “2022 will be version 2 of 2020,” but we as Christians have something to look forward to this year, 365 days of it too! Let us look in the Bible in Lamentations, yes, Lamentaions 3:21-25.

 21 But this I call to mind,

    and therefore I have hope:

 22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;

    his mercies never come to an end;

23 they are new every morning;

    great is your faithfulness.

24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,

    “therefore I will hope in him.”

 25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him,

    to the soul who seeks him.

 God's mercies are new every morning of every day, that is 365 days this year! God’s faithfulness is so good! This means that this New Year will be full of 365 new days and new mercies from God! So, what are these mercies you might ask? Mercy is undeserved compassion or love which from the Lord never ceases! Every day His undeserved compassion and love are renewed for you.

 Please keep this in mind this year as you experience the good/bad, easy and hard times! We would love to pray for our family and friends, if you ever have a prayer request and would like us to join you in prayer please message us or call!

 

The last time we wrote we where at the very beginning of the Fall quarter at the Seminary, and we had celebrated Dalton’s 4 birthday. October came bringing with it it’s bright colors of fall! And at the beginning of the month my birthday! (I think I have lost count) and then I ended the month by giving everyone a good scare! I had an emergency appendectomy. My parents had been planning on coming out to help with finals week anyway, so they just drove out the next day and spent a lot of quality time with me just letting my body heal. We finished the fall quarter even with the emergency.  

 

November held more fun surprises for us. I was exposed to COVID so I worked from home for awhile. We had our first snow in November also.  

The winter quarter started three weeks before Christmas break. We had three weeks off Seminary. We traveled to Oklahoma to visit with family. We returned to Fort Wayne and tried to get back into a routine only to have the kids school go to online learning because of COVID exposure to all their staff! We had to call in reinforcements, and Nana (Bryan’s Mom) drove all the way out here to stay with us a little over two weeks! What a blessing! She did such an amazing job with the kids!

 

Bryan Preached at our home church St. John's Lutheran the Sunday after Christmas

Cousins! The kids loved their cousin times! And of course Agogo and Papa had their arms full! 

4 Generations of Girls: Nana Gigi, Agogo, Myself and Rory

Christmas day, after church, we let the kids get back in their jammies.

We visited the Wichita Wildlife Refuge in Southern Oklahoma.

New Years in Lawton Oklahoma at St. John Lutheran.

We are now in the last 4 weeks of the winter quarter, and we are dragging a bit. But we keep pushing on. Rory is in ice skating lessons (part of her Christmas present) and Dalton and I get to skate at the end of the lessons with her! We have really enjoyed getting out and doing something active during these freezing times. 

We look forward to the spring quarter with anticipation when we will find out where we are headed for vicarage (the Seminary assigns Bryan to a church somewhere in the US for one year to gain experience) on April 26!

Enjoying all the snow!