On Wednesday it'll be 2 years since I first left Canada on Christmas Day to begin life on the road. These 2 years have sure flown by and this past year has been a busy one with all of the ups and downs that went with it. I won't do a year end recap of everything as it's all on the previous blog entries. This past weekend I went and stayed in a couple of the outlying villages to spend time with some friend's churches there. Then on the way home we stopped at Boorie Ooglie for a short visit. Other than that I haven't been doing much over the past few weeks except for taking it easy to help my injuries to heal. My injuries continue to heal and things are going well. I can manage to do more and more things around the house and I can walk almost normally. I get frustrated when I forget that my arm isn't fully mobile yet and I go to use it to do something. I did manage a couple of marshrutka rides without re-injury as well. (A marshrutka is an 18 passenger van used like a bus on a bus route.)
Now that
I'm more confident about going on the marshrutkas (as long as I can get a seat)
I plan to take part in McJoyful Christmas which starts tomorrow. It'll be great to see the kids, many of whom I
haven't seen since McJoyful Christmas last year.
I can't
believe it's Christmastime already. With
what I've been going through these past few months and with what's been going
on in Ukraine I haven't given it a whole lot of thought; but, I do have the
apartment decorated. Other than McJoyful
Christmas I don't know yet what I'll be doing on Christmas (which is January
6th here) or New Years.
After
re-evaluating my financial position I guess I'll be coming to Canada in the new year. I've been putting off buying a ticket hoping
that a miracle will happen and I can go back to Kyrgyzstan instead. But I guess I'll have to make a move on that
soon. As much as I love you all I want to continue life on the road as my heart
and my calling is here. So we'll see in
the next couple of weeks what will happen.
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Please keep the nation and the people of Ukraine in your prayers. Things are not good here as the anti-government protests continue and it looks like both sides are digging in for a long time. It's disappointing that the western media seem to have largely ignored what is going on here with little and/or inaccurate coverage. There's a lot more going on here than the toppling of a couple of Lenin statues by some individuals. Ukraine has so much potential to become a great nation and the beautiful people here deserve so much better than what they're getting. But I guess it's not proper for me to comment on that here so I'll leave it at that.
Please keep me in your prayers as well. Thank you so much for seeing my heart. Merry Christmas to all of you and God's blessings on you throughout the season. Till next time...я дюблю вас!!
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| Some of my Christmas decorations made by children at Svetly Put Orphanage in Kyrgyzstan |
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| The manger was also made by kids of Svetly Put. By the way this and the ornaments in the previous picture (minus one Christmas tree) will be for sale when I do get back to Canada. |
