June has been quite interesting! You can read our June Newsletter if you are interested in other stories, but here are a couple extra!

1. When we left Yakima we left a wonderful home. We had apple trees and cherry trees in our backyard, and had planted raspberries, blue berries, and a lilac bush. The lilac bush was going to bloom for the first time this year, and then we were aksed to head to Kansas City in January -- a bit early for lilacs! When we got to Kansas City, our neighbors had a lilac bush that bloomed nicely, so I was able to smell my favorite bush 0 Yay, thanks God! But this is cool too! This picture is of a bush that has been around for a while, and teh people that lived here before us came by and said this was the very first time it had ever bloomed! So we got to see the first bloom of a bush, and it even looks like a lilac! (It has almost no smell though, but it is pretty--so are the little ladies in front of it!)

2. When we came into the house we got to meet some more live-ins! The bug was easy to evict, but when I got close to this one it tried to swallow me! Click for bigger image! :)

OK, so I kind of helped with the attachement. :) We heard that little boys around here get strings of these guys on both ears and try to impress the girls! Rosie was impressed! :)

And Grace liked it too:

Did you know it rained in Miami? Wow -- and the thunder CRAckS, not just rolls! And then it REALLY comes down.

You can view the June newsletter to see the snakes and other stuff in the house. All kinds of fun (but I think Rosie is going to lose her voice if she keeps getting so excited about things! :)

3. Last story: A wonderful summer volunteer, LeeAllie, who is down here helping us with MUCH needed video production work got back from shooting video in the Dominican Republic and was worried that she would not be able to find her way in the dark back to the apartment she is using. When she got on the shuttle to the parking lot, lo and behold Bryan Heil, our Spanish Field Coordinator, was on the exact same shuttle returning from Arizona! (The shuttles leave every three minutes, so that was a miracle all by itself!) He said he would be happy to show her the way back. They both went to find their cars in the dark and lonely parking garage, and LeeAllie discovered that her battery had gone dead while she was gone, and she would have been stuck in the parking garage by herself for who knows how long! But, since Bryan was there he just gave her a jump start and off they went! Is God cool or what -- and that was some timing job!

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