Well I think that today is Wednesday here in China. First I must say Happy Birthday to our precious Maddie Girl. We love you baby!!

Well so far this has been nothing short of miraculous. Yesterday we shared about the American tradition of Christmas. Of course there was no mention of the "Fat Man" but we did tell the "Story" of "THE MAN" It was awesome. Some had never heard of Him before or His book. We sang Silent Night and Joy to the World. We explained that this was the beginning of the story and today we shared the rest of the story. Easter!! In my culture class I had forgotten to make copies of the story so all I had was "The Book" Well you know me, take a chance, so we passed out "The Book" to all in the class and they read the Easter Story right out of Luke! It was to cool. There were 5 more people added to "The family" today. The harvest is ripe and we are seeing much fruit. Talk to the Father for us as some are sick. Myself and Caitlin have creatures in our stomaches!!! But we do have enough Cipro to kill anyhting. It is not serious but more annoying.
This evening the school is showing the Passion of the Christ to the students!!! We will see what tomorrow brings.
Our schedule for the rest of our time here is as follows...
Teaching Thursday & Friday
Follow up and Goodbye's on Saturday
Fly to Chengdu Saturday @ 5:00pm
Sunday we will go to the Panda Habitat, Artist's village and in the evening the Chinese Opera.
Monday we will fly to Beijing in the early afternnon.
Tuesday the Great Wll
Wednesday the Chinese Acrobats
Thursday HOME!!!!!!!

All are anxious to get home. We do miss "normal food"

Well it is late and we have another full day tomorrow.
We miss you all and covet your PRYRS>

Miss Dianne

Hey to everyone, here we say.. Neehow (hello). All is well, we are very busy and the Father is doing mighty things here. We have been able to be vocal with all the staff and students regarding Him and they are very interested. The food is "interesting", I ate things today that I'm not sure what they really are. Not sure I want to know. G is good and has taken care of us. Gotta go, Blessings to all, keep us in your "thoughts". Special birthday wish to my little girl on her 25th, we missed you. Neehow to Andi, Andrew, Addi, and Rachel (and baby to be named later) from Papa and Grandma. We love you all

Randy

In the news it is saying there is major storms and flooding in China.
No one from the group has posted anything other then it is unbearably humid and hot, just wondering if you are in the clear in regards to the news. Sorry, I'm not trying to be a worry wart, just a wonderin'!
Love to all, Lila

It is awesome reading everyone's blogs (except Jarred)your mom wants to hear from you. We all really miss you all. But WE REALLY miss Dustin. We are keeping in touch with the father and glad to hear you all are good. Dustin soak everything in because this is the opportunity of a lifetime. Marelda everything is going well here and I am home and not leaving again! We love you guys and can't wait till you are home. Dustin we miss and love you lots.

Kathy
(MOM)

Well... this whole trip has been quite interesting. All I can say is the bathrooms are the BEST. I have pictures, don't worry. Anyway, the people are awesome, the scenery is beautiful, the whole experience is great. I can't wait to show all of you pictures and tell stories. I hit my head on about everything I try to walk under. The food is quite.... well.... it's hard to explain. Let's just say I ate a fried worm. Everything is very spicy. The end. Oh and... the driving is insane. But all in all, I have had some opportunities to talk about the Father and my relationship and stuff so that is wonderful. Please keep us in your prayers. I love you all.
Especially you Mom, Dad, Sis, and G-unit.
~Dustin