Happy Thanksgiving!!

For Thanksgiving all the IFM missionaries got together and celebrated at the Washers home in Garneton. I spent the night at Tori's house and Helen also joined us. Tori made us pumpkin ice cream and we watched a movie on her laptop! It was a fun night. That morning we got up and cooked all the food and then headed out to Garneton. It was so nice to get together with the family that God has given me here in Zambia. We ate all the traditional dishes that we would back in the states. We were even able to find a couple turkeys!! After we ate all the kids put on a little program for us on Thanksgiving! It was really cute! Then we shared just one of the many blessings that God has given to us this year. For me it was just seeing God at work in my life. Looking over the past year He has taken me to many different places and has helped me grow so much. Thinking of where I was a year ago and then where I am now- I just see God's faithfulness to me, and it is overwhelming. A verse that God has been impressing upon me is "to whom much has been given much more shall be required." God has granted to me eternal life through His only Son, and if thats all that He did for me, He would still be an awesome and loving God. But He has given me a wonderful Christian family and friends. He has given me health and food and clothes. He has done so much for me that I in turn need to be giving back to Him. God showed me that so many times I take my health for granted. Yesterday on our way home we stopped at the hospital to visit a lady from the church who has been sick since I arrived here in September. Going through the hospital and seeing the many patients that were there and realizing that most of them will die soon, was a very eye opening experience for me. God has truly blessed me with good health and so many times I take it for granted. Another thing I am thankful for is that God also answered a prayer for me. The Leadership Conference is coming up in just one week. For the conference we are printing a workbook that is 200 pages and we are making 225 books, which is about 45,000 copies. Our copier here is not very reliable, and to make that many copies was a big burden on us. On Wednesday it got to the point where the copier wouldn't even print one page without a paper jam! It was very frustrating to the church secretary and I who are working on this huge project. But then God showed me that He is faithful even in the "little" things, Kristie Washer was in town and had stopped by the church and I was talking with her. She mentioned to me that they have a rice o'graph machine and that there is someone out there in Garneton that would be able to run the machine and finish the copying for us!! It is such a huge burden lifted off of our shoulders and I am so thankful for it!! It will save us so much time and it will also save wear on our copier! Just one more thing to add to my list of things to thank God for!!

Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness!

Morning by morning new mercies I see;

All I have needed Thy hand hath provided --

Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!