Canada

Garry and I have been in Canada for nearly a week now, still trying to get used to sleeping and waking at the proper times, but keeping busy. I have been trying to get Christmas letters and cards in the mail with a photo of all the family we took at the farm Christmas party on Saturday night. The photo never comes out as good as we hope, but everyone is in it! You can even see the boys scoreboard in the farm gym where the dinner was held.


Sunday we were in Steinbach and that evening we returned to meet with potential work team members, while we were there, it snowed, and it was a long slow drive home for Garry as the road was covered with a thick layer of snow and more swirling around. They hope to send a building team at the end of March, beginning of April. They may even do a VBS in the village during spring break.

Garry is always ready to talk about our mission.
We've changed our schedule and will be driving to Saskatchewan this weekend to speak to two groups and visit friends/supporters.

Garry has been enjoying hanging out with our sons, helping in the barn and even playing some basketball with them. He refereed some high school basketball on Friday and Saturday. He says he is finally figuring out how to run on his fused ankle. He has been walking fast since summer.

This week the students back in Ukraine are having classes without us, next week they will start a winter vacation, only working a few shifts a week, no school. I found a photo on facebook. It looks like Larissa's husband Jenya was teaching today. Most weeks she comes to teach by herself. They are doing a class on Tuesdays about life choices with a Christian perspective. They drive out from Zaporosia to teach our students this course, we bought workbooks for everyone, including the grads.