So the presentation for the 4- 8th grade at the Huron Christian School (some of our great nieces and nephews are in younger grades) went well, I had put together a different PowerPoint than we used before, asking the question what would you think if your parents became missionaries ? from Seth and Jonah's perspective. Some of the students were interested in the farming pictures, because we answered a lot of follow-up questions about farming, along with ones like "do you miss your family? "
Tuesday we had lunch at Garry's dad's, and checked out his baby finches, they are so cute hopping around the cage. We got packed and made sure everything was ready for our epic silage truck trip. The insurance and temporary plate arrived in the mail from our son.
That evening we spoke at our old church in Zurich Ontario. We were surprised that so many people came out, neither of us counted, but Garry says he thinks there were 70-80 people there. We even got interviewed by the local paper. I did an overview of how we got into missions, while Garry talked about farming, people and some projects in Ukraine to help if people wanted to make donations to the efccm humanitarian fund-Ukraine, ones for churches giving food and gospel outreach to refugees and neighbors, or clothing and food for injured soldiers and fuel for an ambulance moving sick and injured people from bad areas to safer ones.
Afterwards we talked to many people we knew- friends, neighbors and relatives, even some from other churches, I had my photo taken with Linda, whom I used to do VBS with there. I also answered a number of moms who wanted to know what our daughter was doing now, and Garry talked to most of the guys from his old men's small group. Sorry to say, I didn't get any photos to share.
However, I have lots of photos of driving up the shores of Lake Huron and Superior in the new to the boys silage truck. We got a ride to Orangeville with Tom and Susan at five am, to get the truck at seven am and start off, around 7:40, anyway.
It all went pretty well, except when the air pot broke the first day and we had a four hour lunch break while a mobile guy came to fix it from Sudbury (it controls a number of functions Garry needed to drive like brakes and suspension of the box) so we didn't get quite as far as he hoped. Day two we left around six thirty from the Bavarian Inn, I'd stay there again, but we got an hour past Thunder Bay and stopped at a very dated motel late that Thursday afternoon. That bed convinced us to make the early (3:30 am) start in the dark on Friday, the third and last day, when it started raining and the wipers slowly quit in the upright position, was a real problem seeing the road when we met another vehicle. By daylight, the rain stopped, we fueled up one last time, got breakfast at Tim Hortons, and made it to Steinbach by eleven am.
We did not see a moose, or as they are apparently called in Ontario, Night Danger. There was, as predicted, trees, rocks, lakes and many places with ice and snow on or under those things.
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