Thanks for all the emails!

Thank you to all of you who have been emailing us. You don't know how much it means to receive something as small as an email from someone back home. You don't know how many times your kind words of encouragement have really helped us get through. Just this morning we were feeling a little lonely and discouraged and I checked our email and sure enough there was one from Albert (a Hope and Lifer) that really encouraged MJ and I both. Thanks! It has been really difficult for us to be away from everyone. I'm used to addressing over 1,000 people each week from the puplit and then being able to shake several hundred hands and hug a few hundred necks each Sunday... and I'm going into withdrawls! Being with my church family is one of the things I look foward to each week. We don't just do it because we're on staff and we have to be there for services, we do it because we honestly care about our brothers and sisters at H&L. We love you guys! Thank you for all of your support and especially for your prayers.

Well it didn't rain today... but it was so overcast it may as well have been raining! We were hoping to atleast come away from this thing with a good tan, but it looks like I'm leaving white and bald! Kind of like Curley from the 3 stooges (yeah, I heard what you said Marvin... good thing you carry a gun!LOL) We're still battling this sickness junk. But we're still standing on the Word. Our little guy Robert (2yrs old) has been such a trooper through the whole thing. Even though he hasn't felt good he has provided some prime entertainment for us during our stay here. The picture of him on the ladder is a picture I took up on the roof where we go to kill time each day. He is a little daredevil. He isn't afraid of anything and he climbs stuff that would make most adults scared. Anyway, there is a ladder that goes up to a big water tank on the roof and he climbed it. Then he strattled the safety cage that surrounds it at the top. That's what those 2 pics are of. Everyone else is doing good. We're looking foward to going somewhere else for the weekend. A change of scenery is going to do us good. Well it's getting late so until tomorrow...

Love Ya!

Jim