Craziness

So it's been a week already since the last post! Sorry! We are in the midst of the craziness of packing and sorting and shopping to finally seal up the container and send it. I have two rooms left to go through, and neither will have much for us to send, so we are just about done with that. We are waiting on our propane refrigerator, steel for the roof, some flooring and some cabinets, and some mattresses. The container is getting full Brian says, we're hoping we can get it all in there! None of those big items will be coming until the end of this week, or next, so there isn't too much else Brian can pack until that stuff gets here.

So, in our craziness, we have decided to leave Thursday for the International House of Prayer for a weekend of prayer and rest. It's called "Weekends at IHOP" and there are some seminars that we will be going to and they have tracks for the kids too. I hope it will be refreshing!! We'll be staying with a family from the Willmar area who are now Intercessory Missionaries at IHOP, John & Cheryl Nielsen. I am sure it will be quite interesting in the house-they have 7 kids too! We kept hemming and ha-ing about whether or not to go (basically because we are cheap and didn't want to pay for hotel rooms). Saturday though, i decided that i needed to get serious about finding a hotel and let's just do it. Well, at exactly that same time, Brian broke out in a sweat and became so nauseous he could hardly make the 5 mile drive home. How's that for a little spiritual attack, and confirmation that we needed to go for the weekend!

So please pray for us the next two days, it seems the closer we get to an encouraging time of Christian fellowship and time with God, the easier it is to get annoyed, the kids to act up, little things to become big things. Pray also for Brian to have restful sleep.