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We're HERE!

Well, we made it! After a beautiful wedding on Saturday, we flew home from Colorado to Georgia. We had one day to repack, clean, get everything organized and fly to Alaska. We accomplished all of that (at least I hope, I tend to forget things), and set off on our journey. We arrived Tuesday evening to chilly weather. We were so excited! We weren't sweating walking out of the parking lot. It was such a blessing!

Wednesday was a pretty laid back day. Mike (pastor we're staying with) allowed us to sleep in :) and get aquainted with the time change. We moved into our nice living quarters for the next month.

Thought you all would enjoy that. Mike is so graciously named it as "the Love shack" We do use the facilities in the house though so I am not completely roughing it so I am ok with that. :)







We went over to the church yesterday and went through the list of things that Mike wants to accomplish while we are here. When I say church, I really mean theater. The church is located at the local movie theater. So, we will be cleaning the theater up a lot over the next few weeks. Kraig did get started on that today by tearing apart the old stage in order to move it to the next theater. He did a great job and I missed a great photo opportunity b/c my camera died. I'm sorry! I will try to do a better job. Hunter worked on the song selection for Sunday service. He is singing the "Revelation song" and he put words and a slide show to the "You are Holy" song. It's been a really productive day. I worked on the bulletins for Sunday, as well as stuffing the inserts in them. I also worked on the Sunday School materials for the preschool classes. And I worked on the flyers for the 4th of July parade and started printing them.

Tonight we decided to make a fire out at the firepit by the Balos' house. Hunter had a great time trying to make the fire stay going.
In the background, you can see the side of the house...Kraig and Hunter have both been working on pressure washing it and when the next mission group comes up from TN, they are planning on painting their house for them. Which we have many other projects we will be working on and I will do better with taking pictures and documenting the different things we are doing. We are still a little jet lagged and getting adjusted to it being light outside all the time, but it is so worth it and we are already seeing God move. :) He has been so gracious and we are so excited to meet the church family on Sunday and plug in even more with the people.




Please continue to pray for us...as well as for some of our friends and family back home. We have a lot of needs and burdens on our hearts for our family and friends. Thank you so much and I will do better with the pictures. :)

Love you all,

Kraig and Ashleigh

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  1. UnknownJune 25, 2010 at 4:26 AM

    Wish I could be back up there with you guys... have fun and enjoy your time... it's worth every second.

    Bobby Daniels

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