January 15, 2014

We started a training program this week that gets the entire family up and exercising at 6:30 a.m. for 30 minutes. It has been great so far, but we are only three days into it. This is our fourth week without any visitors; the first time in eight months. We still miss our visitors and find the house a little empty. We are constantly looking for "the rest of us" as it always feels that we are missing someone. After lunch we are reading a book about the life of Amy Carmichael. We could relate to something we read today. Amy said that before coming to the mission field she read books where people were just waiting for the missionaries to come so that they could receive Christ and how "reality is sometimes different."