Prayer Letter - New Guinea News (from America)

11 September 2005

Back in America

Back in America

Where is the snow? That is one of the first questions Avalon asked when we got off of the plane in America. Her perception of America was not quite right even though we had tried hard to prepare her. In many ways though, the rest of us are feeling similar. Some things are not quite the way we expected when we got here.

Though we have faced some adjustments coming back to our home country we have been overwhelmed with love from family and friends. We spent the first week in the Kansas City area with Lori's family. Now we are settling into our rental home in Sioux City, Iowa. Avalon has started school and Sierra is getting used to being the only child three days a week.

In the wake of the recent hurricane disaster, Lori and I have the opportunity to go on a week long trip to Mississippi to help in relief effort. We will leave on Monday, September 12. The kids get to stay with their grandparents.

Unfortunately we still do not have internet access, but I was able to check our email yesterday on another computer. When we get back from Mississippi we will try to catch up on our correspondence.

Please continue to not only pray for us, but also our partners, the Kunzers, in the Patpatar. Pray for their support level, language learning, relationship building, their time alone in the tribe, and their safety. Yesterday we heard news of an earthquake that measured 7.3 on the rictor scale that occurred on our island.

For His Glory,

Aaron

PS - We will be disconnecting our email and we may not have it set up again until the end of August so you may not hear from us right away.