Touching Base This Monday Evening!

Nick worked this evening on the lap top and got it going again - he ran a virus scan and a clean up - and now this flash stick is working again....so thankful!  Yeah!

So while the blog is working I am going to type away here!

Today was a great day - so many wonderful things happened...may I share it with you all?????!!!!


You betcha I will!

We woke up to  phone call - yes someone had a motorcycle to lend us for the next 2 months!

Oh all these blessings - just keep coming our way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  You gotta have some wheels to get around - even though we love to walk - you all know that....but in 30 degree C weather with 70-80% humidity - similar to Hawaii - you can imagine how a motorcycle would feel!

So we can rent this motorcycle and would you believe it - it is only 1 year old ~ Yamaha scooter - so' cute.  It belongs to someone who is willing to share it with us for the 2 months~ Oh we are ever so delighted you guys!  Can you believe it - in the house for 5 days - and we have a table, 4 chairs, 4 stools, a washing machine a frig and now a scooter too!!!!!!

We are tripin'!!!! 

And then this afternoon - receive a sms message from a young gal from one of the hotel we have stayed at and she text me and asked "can you teach me English lessons?" so I said YES! So she arrived with another girl from the hotel Yanti & Tia and together we sat on the porch  - and did some talking and sharing together!!!! So wonderful!  "saya tanggul di Salatiga sadah dua bulan" I have been in Salatiga already 2 months.  That is my lesson - back from them!  So you see it goes both ways - they help me/us and we/I help them!  And they are both adorable!  One other gal Kiki from another hotel also asked with such sincerity "please Ibu Ellen teach me speak English?" So now that we are in a house - Kiki too will come for a hour lesson!  How fun is that!  Exciting and this is what it is all about!
They are tickled pink that Nick was born in Palembang and lived in Salatiga his first 6 yrs and that my father was born in Bandung - so we have a sweet connection and feel blessed to have this opportunity to settle for a while and help!!!!!!!! PTL!!!!!!!

So then another sms/text comes in ....two friends from church Jessica who is this smart cookie and cute as can be - who speaks English really well and who gave "Opa" Nick & "Oma" Ellen a warm welcome on that first Sunday ~ and also Albert our Dutch friend - came by to see where we lived!  Wow - we felt so blessed - making new friends and just having special time together...wish we could share it all with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then on top of all  this - I was invited to a ....hold on now.....YES..... a Beth Moore bible study on the book of James! With wonderful women - surrounded by so many blessings! Young women - some teachers-  mothers - with little ones...oh Ellen was totally blessed -!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hearing Beth Moore on TV here in Salatiga Java Indonesia - sitting in a living room - what an amazing God we serve!

So you can imagine - how it was a little right?  I think so - we are so thankful!  And yes I did the wash - watched that agitator turning -what a blessing to see that...ha! You then rinse out the soap and fill the washing machine again with water to get all the soap out of the clothes and put the clothes manually into the spinner and oh man it spins it very "dry" and then hang it out to dry...you guys - well you ladies - can you imagine how thankful I was to even start my day doing that??????!!!!!!!!!

The wash is done - and it smells good from the Sun - and outdoors and I am sitting typing away with you AND yes Nick is stretched out on the "couch" we now have to loaner couch!

It is 9:30 pm and time to wrap things up!

Please do drop us a email - you all have our personal email still?  Would love to hear from you!!!!!

Thanks for allowing us to share with you - and thank you for praying for us when you do~ we are so trusting the Lord to do whatever He would have us to do!  We are being stretched - in so many ways and learning to trust Him a day at a time - a moment at a time!  And He is Faithful!!!!!!!