Saturday, March 05, 2011
Troolin email update, March 2011
Dear Friends and Family,
We are seeing cooler weather here, and it's nice to have a change. :) (Sorry all you Minnesota folks - did that make you cringe? Don't worry, you'll see warmer weather soon! :) )
We are settled in our "new" house now, and it's nice to be able to unpack a little bit more and put everything in its place. And the Lord has blessed us with a station wagon to use, that seats our whole family! Praise the Lord! :) We have a routine of sorts, and the kids have friends in school. We are also building relationships with people here, and have started attending a church near our house. It's also been really fun to be close to Sarah's family and seeing our kids play with their Australian cousins. :)
But we are also feeling a bit stretched, and that there is a lot for us to think about: trying to move forward with getting Dave either Australian permanent residency or citizenship (he had to visit the police station yesterday to get fingerprinted), writing and revising various anthropology papers, preparing for the next anthropology conference (Bangkok, from Mar. 7-12), sitting in on some Bible College classes, applying for our PNG visas, wondering if we will be able to leave Australia when we had planned to or if Dave's Australian permanent residency visa process will require us to stay longer, preparing for some opportunities to speak about Bible translation, and so on. We're looking forward to getting together with more of you who are here in Adelaide soon and those of you who are in Melbourne in April.
Thank you so much for caring and praying! Our God is so good, and He's leading us and YOU along good paths!
Blessings,
Dave and Sarah, and Joanna, Samuel, Matthew and Rebekah
Phone numbers:
Dave 0403 738 502
Sarah 0413 347 362
We are seeing cooler weather here, and it's nice to have a change. :) (Sorry all you Minnesota folks - did that make you cringe? Don't worry, you'll see warmer weather soon! :) )
We are settled in our "new" house now, and it's nice to be able to unpack a little bit more and put everything in its place. And the Lord has blessed us with a station wagon to use, that seats our whole family! Praise the Lord! :) We have a routine of sorts, and the kids have friends in school. We are also building relationships with people here, and have started attending a church near our house. It's also been really fun to be close to Sarah's family and seeing our kids play with their Australian cousins. :)
But we are also feeling a bit stretched, and that there is a lot for us to think about: trying to move forward with getting Dave either Australian permanent residency or citizenship (he had to visit the police station yesterday to get fingerprinted), writing and revising various anthropology papers, preparing for the next anthropology conference (Bangkok, from Mar. 7-12), sitting in on some Bible College classes, applying for our PNG visas, wondering if we will be able to leave Australia when we had planned to or if Dave's Australian permanent residency visa process will require us to stay longer, preparing for some opportunities to speak about Bible translation, and so on. We're looking forward to getting together with more of you who are here in Adelaide soon and those of you who are in Melbourne in April.
Thank you so much for caring and praying! Our God is so good, and He's leading us and YOU along good paths!
Blessings,
Dave and Sarah, and Joanna, Samuel, Matthew and Rebekah
Phone numbers:
Dave 0403 738 502
Sarah 0413 347 362
