We wanted to share this picture of our family taken on the third day of spring, yes, I said spring. We have not taken a picture together in quite awhile, yeah! everyone is being still enough. We have been becoming less and less busy with being busy and really starting to settle in. Praise God that we have been able to develop some really good relationships here. I must say one thing... the importance the Russians — at least the ones I have met — place on relationships, the fact that they are taken so very seriously. You do not just remain on a surface level with someone here, they want to go deep and this has taken time and will continue to do so. It has only been five months since we have been here but, we are starting to have these types of friendships. The last two months is when these friendships have been forming. We were told to "be patient with making friends, they want to know they can trust you". I now know why they take much longer to develop friendships than most in the States... it's quite simple, because they desire to go deep. This is not to say folks in the states don't go deep, I have several friends who are very much the same way... and I miss them dearly. My dear friends in the states have triggered these thoughts since I just got done praying for them this evening. I am so grateful to God for those of you who have impacted my life and remained on with me during hard times... praise God for you! We continue to trust the Lord to provide exactly what we need... and He always does! But please continue to pray for our marriage, parenting, language learning/practice and new formed friendships, that they all would honor and glorify God above all else!Thank you all who have been praying and contacting us... we are very grateful to God for you! Please send us an e-mail to let us know how we can be praying for you.
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