Happy New Year

OK so I am a couple of days late, but I hope you do have a happy new year!  

We had fun on New Years Eve with various people popping in during the day including a dad to make some Airfix with Ben!   We all went round to our friends house in the evening with various other SIM missionaries and their familiesand enjoyed chatting and singing Christmas Carols (!) and Choruses.  Ben had to leave around 8pm as he went to Yagma to see the new year in with the church.  I couldn't face going all that way with the children and the party at our friends house finished at 10pm.  So I was only one awake in the house at midnight watching Cranford!

New Years morning found us in Yagma again with a much smaller congregation than usual and a much shorter service.  We went and visited several of Ben's friends after the service just to say happy new year.   It is very traditional to go and greet people on New Years Day.  Our weekend night guard came to greet us with his wife and daughter in the afternoon.

Looking back over the past year, it's very strange to think that this time last year we were praying about our next step and were starting to think about the possibility of going to Burkina.  We have been here ten months now and the Lord has taught us so much.  I wonder what this new year holds for us.