Part A: Share at least 3 “Bountiful Blessings” that the Lord has abundantly provided.

This past year we were Bountifully Blessed with two visits from our sending church. We were so grateful  for all that the Lord did to make it possible! We were blessed with wonderful fellowship with our brothers and sisters in Christ, gifts, prayers, hugs, words of encouragement, listening ears, beautiful worship to the Lord in English,  the gift of hard work which left my home looking a little nicer and a new house started! And many more things little and big which left us feeling so loved, cared for and truly blessed by the Lord.

Part B: Share your Thanksgiving Feast {past or present}

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun last week. Even though we would have loved to be all together with family we had the next best thing. About 8 families and 2 single ladies all got together at one of the family's houses across town to eat turkey (yes, it IS possible to get a good turkey in Peru), dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, so many veggie dishes I can't even remember them all, pumpkin pies and even cranberry sauce! Yum!

There was a funny moment when our Peruvian co-worker was asked to lead us in prayer. Of course he speaks Spanish so in Spanish he said, "I am going to lead us in prayer now, even though this is a completely American holiday!"

When we missionaries get together for holiday dinners like this a puzzle box or two usually gets pulled out and we all go to town putting it/them together. This year it was just one big puzzle and it was almost done by the time we left. I usually join in more but this time I only put one piece on. But I had a blast visiting with the ladies. We don't seem to get together enough so it's always nice to have time to just sit and gab.The boys had fun running around outside and eating!

The only picture I have of the day is of our family trying to get a family picture.

I thought, we're all dressed nicely, our friend's yard is a lovely place for a picture, why not? I forgot about the bugs. In every picture someone (if not several people) is either squinting or swatting. Sigh. I think I am going to give up on getting a family picture where we are all looking (not squinting) at the camera and smiling. I think we should just do the Brady Bunch thing and take individual pictures and just line them up together.

Part C: Post a Scripture that reminds you of your blessings!