about yesterday and today

P.S. I know there were lots of people praying yesterday and actually it ended up being kind of a fun day, in a masochistic sort of way. I get something done and we would think of 2 more things I should do. My shopping list was updated every 5-6 minutes. I didn't get it all done, but we accomplished a lot and I felt good about it when I left. I also remained fairly pleasant, I think. You'll have to ask Solveiga to be sure. So, thanks for your prayers. Zoe and Graeme and Sian went shopping with me today and helped me get a lot checked off of my list. We also had a great lunch. We had our regional employee 'holiday' party today, too. It was very nice. We had it here and Edgars' sister who is studying catering did an amazing and beautiful job with the food. Then we played a couple of the usual mixer games, always fun in 2-3 languages. The big programming bit was getting us all to try line dancing. Funny how many had to leave suddenly! I tried the first dance - the traditional beginners line dance steps and did all right. I'm a plodder not graceful, but at least I had my feet in the right places most of the time. The second one seemed easy until the music started and the tempo was sooooo fast. I sat right down. Henrik stuck it out and managed to do some of the steps. Hope someone got a picture of that!

Hannah and Patrick, with Angelina, have arrived from Sweden to do regional youth work. They will add a nice flavor to our multicultural staff. More about them later, I'm sure.

Thanks for praying - don't stop, please! Still much to do but at the moment I'm feeling a bit too tired to do much. Maybe I'll go to bed early and work extra hard tomorrow.