Western Canada Tour: Week 1

It has been about one week since we left home, (tomorrow it's official :) and we've already had a lot of wonderful times in prison and out! So, basically, I'm going to take you on a little photo adventure with me and some stories along the way. enjoy!

:: 2 1/2 miles from our house the bus died on us while we were driving. Turns out that while we had the bus at a shop in the past week they had put in a wrong voltage part, so Dad spent some time on the phone with the folks at Prevost to see what he could do. He ended up being able to bypass the problem and we kept going. However, about 10 minutes later the bus started getting too hot so we parked beside the road again! (it took us about 3 hours to drive 40 miles!) After another hour we continued on our journey. The plans were to stop and visit family in Grandview for supper, but because of all the problems we only made it there around 10:30 at night ::

:: this has become my new favorite past time :) ::

:: The first prison service that was scheduled for Wednesday evening was canceled due to the prison being under-staffed. so we drove on to Prince Albert, SK where Dad was teaching the Bondage to Freedom seminar all day. We parked at a mall and accomplished many things including office work, cleaning the bus, school work, a good walk, and seeing our first (tiny bit of) snow of the season! of course we got some hot drinks and listened to Christmas music. yep, I'm that type of person! ::

 :: over the next 2 nights we stayed at our friends house near Prince Albert. Loni played games with Mrs. R and Ty even got to shoot a bow and arrow! ::

:: walks were enjoyed by all ::

:: You know how you read in story books about homely little towns where everyone knows everyone by name? Well, we stopped in one of those for supper on Saturday, and we all felt like the strangers :) As we were sitting, waiting for our pizza, a large group of elderly ladies came in and sat by a table a ways behind me. Julia all of a sudden told me to "look behind you!" so, I did. The entire bunch of ladies were all standing, sitting, or squatting to get into the selfie one of them was taking! it made my night! They kept walking by our table and would always have some comment to share ::

:: good times playing Battleship while traveling ::

:: Sunday morning found us at the Fort Pitt Christian Farms and I tell you we had a wonderful time! catching up with friends is always so lovely and more generous folks then them you will never find. 

When it was time to go we discovered that one of the airbags in the bus wasn't going up, the men helped fix the problem so we could make it to Two Hills, AB in time for the evening service ::

:: getting ready for the concert ::

:: hello there, morning faces! Us kids walked into town to hunt down a library for some much needed catch-up on things ::

Well, that's all the photos have I have for you today, and there would be many more stories of God's amazing grace and love shown especially in the prison services, but I'm afraid that would be for another time! thank you to all our dear friends that have prayed basically non-stop for us on this tour... you really don't know how much we treasure knowing there are people that have our backs! we love you so much! 





The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; but they who seek the Lord shall not want of any good thing.
Psalm 34:10