Lori's musings...

I would like to add that our (Lori, Caleb and Abigail's) encounters with the wildlife do not have anything to do with friendly cute yellow geckos. The second night we were here I battled with a 4 inch roach with wings. He won the first round but that night I found some bug spray at the Page's house (a.k.a house number 4) and I think I won the second round, at least we haven't seen him anymore. Then that evening Caleb killed what he swears was a very large tarantula in his bed. We are told they have no tarantulas here so it was a just a big, hairy spider. No more problems though, after that.

It's been so strange, being here in this place. Micronesia in the South Pacific, very foreign, an island for goodnes sake. And yet America is everywhere. Nob and Eddie, our very patient driver, have Pohnpei Ace Hardware shirts (I really want one of those!). As I was sitting in the House Of Beauty waiting for my turn at the 'Foot Spa' there was a table with magazines and right next to the Pohnpei phonebook was a Better, Homes and Garden magazine, maybe from last year, that I have at home. We even have had Pizza, at Arnold's Pizza, in cardboard boxes -get this, DELIVERED. We have seen graffitti on walls 'Da Boys in Da Hood' to be exact, and young boys walking around with baggy pants and straight bill caps. Crazy. And as I contemplate all this I am reminded of God's command in Genesis for Noah and his family to scatter to the ends of the earth, and multiply. And then how at the Tower of Babel, this command was disregarded, people wanted to build a tower "so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth" Gen 11:4 So here we are, on the other side of the world where people have scattered because God's Will will not be thwarted. Amazing. Another thing that is so cool; Michelle and I had the opportunity to give our testimonies at a ladies bible study where they are doing, get this, Beth Moore's Breaking Free. It was one of the more surreal experiences I have had here, to be sitting in a room with precious godly women, just like I do at home, learning truth that Beth Moore teaches. Anyway, the ladies could identify with everything we had to say and were so very kind to us. So even as we live in such different places (did we mention how hot and humid it is?) we are still the same, loved and called by God.

ok, I have to go, thanks all your comments, it makes us feel loved.

-lori