Meeting with our church family was also GOOD! Such awesome support from everyone!!! And a special thank you to Sally Hulsman's Sunday School class for the big cards for us and the bookmarks for the kids out here. They put 6 REAL special verses on a "spot" of paper and hung them from ribbons. It will be so much fun to share these with our group of the same age.
Traveling back to South Dakota was something......!!!! We started out after dinner with snow right away, but nothing too worrisome. We got through Chicago in fine shape....and we were very happy to be heading west because the east bound traffic was tied up for about 9 miles. We continued on with sloppy wet snow --- Gary drove all the way and that made me very happy!! By evening the temperature stayed at 34 degrees so we felt rather confident that ice was not forming. We made it to Iowa City and decided to stop -- driving at night is not something either one of us enjoy. Oh! and if you did know --- we took our two oldest grandsons (Trenton and Austin) along with us -- they will stay until Christmas...... So the boys were real happy to know that we had landed at a motel with a pool.
Morning brought BAD roads. All the slop had frozen and there were spots that were awful!! From Iowa City to Des Moines we counted 70 cars in the ditch....some were in worse shape than others.....some had rolled....some had gone down into steep places and so on. We KNOW that God was watching over us once again because we made it through all the bad stuff and on through to dry roads where I could take over driving.
The boys got to bed rather late because excitement is high :-) so this morning has started rather slowly. And now they have gone "down the hill" with Grandpa to have a tour of the ranch. It looks like it will be a beautiful day as you can see with the glorious sunrise.
At Release Time today we will have the younger groups and we will be having ice cream sundaes today. This is the treat that was promised for good behavior.
We cannot say Thank You enough!! All the prayers that are being lifted!! We praise God nightly for his faithfulness.
Gary and Barb
2 comments:
Dear Gary and Barb,
Thankful you made it "home" again! What a journey - travelling under those conditions is very difficult! It is wonderful that you have company for the next few weeks in the form of those two grandsons!! :) That will be fun and they will be a blessing I'm sure.
So happy to see you made it back safe and sound. I thought about you often on Sunday afternoon. Absolutely right that God is protecting and directing your paths.
Loved hearing the update in church on Sunday. Thanks for sharing the details in this posting, it all makes a difference.
Enjoy your Advent season, as the days will suddenly lead us to the Blessed Christmas event!
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