Getting cold!

Today was very cold and rainy. we had to cancel our harvest party which was very dissapointing cause we had done a lot of preperation for it. but since the greenhouse is still outside, it was just too cold and wet. jim woke me up at 2 in the morning to get our stuff put up out of the rain. so that was fun. i ran outside without my glasses and was pretty useless. couldn't see a thing.

On the other hand i was able to get some other things done instead. Emailing, planning and getting organized for what i have to teach this coming week, and jim, melissa and i were able to meet and talk about our upcoming trip home.

I am sorry i have yet to get new pics up. i don't have my own computer, so i either have to go to an internet cafe to do it or find someone to let me use their computer. finding the time for either of those has been challenging to say the least. still want to get some up though. i think pasha has some recent pics put up on the greenhouse's blog so you can check there also. there is a link on the homepage of this blog.

hi.
sorry i have not gotten any new pics up yet. I'm still hoping to get this done soon, with more pics of the students.
some of you know jim, meliss and myself are planning on coming to the states in november for 3 or 4 months with the goal of raising awareness of what God is doing here in kyrgyzstan and in central asia and to raise enough support to finally come back and buy a building for the greenhouse. we do not want to leave the states until we have enough. please begin praying for us in this matter. we are preparing a rather large presentation and jim and i will be travelling around sharing this with people. you can pray that God will give us more and more faith to believe that He will provide.

We will be leaving here the 17th of november and will be based out of ohio. once again if you are interested in helping us with mobilization please let us know soon. we are a body and we cannot do this without the rest of you. so far we are planning on travelling to california, colorado, ohio, north carolina and lot of other possible places.

We had a survivor party last saturday and it went great. played lots of ridiculous games to challenge people and to get them to work together while they were in teams. everyone loved it. we still have 5 more weeks left of this season but it is starting to get colder and wetter. it sounds strange but please pray that God would give us good weather to finish out our season here. it is supposed to rain for the next week or so and since the greenhouse is outside this would mean we would have to cancel some things. we of course do not want to do this, so again, please pray that God would give us good weather.

STUDENT PRAYER REQUESTS
We have a list of 6 students we are praying for right now, none are saved. i want to get their pictures up here and ask you to please begin praying with us for them. persistently. here are their names and i will get their pics up soon.
Aizada
Alexei(big alex)
Azamat
Eliza
Gulniza-says she wants to be a christian but cannot believe that Jesus is God and that he was perfect. says she has prayed and asked God to show her how this is possible and He hasn't.
Aibek
They have all been shared with numerous times. some are closer than other. when i get the pics up i will do a little write up about them.

hi folks. just wanted to throw out a quick update. Little Alexei was finally baptized on sunday. it had gotten cancelled twice due to sickness and something else that i cannot remember. but he is baptized now so feel free to rejoice with us and be praying for him. he is spending thenight at our house on saturday nights to read the bible together and pray. and then we have been going to a new church in the morning so you can pray for him that he would have understanding as he reads the bible and that he would be able to recognize God's voice as He speaks to him.

our clubs are going well. we have less people than i think we expected, or at least i can say than i expected. but that is just fine. i know whoever we have in the greenhouse is exactly who God has led here. tomorrow we have an english club and then cooking club going on. we'll be cooking morrocan and some italian food. so if anyone wants to stop by, feel free. the food goes quick though so you should come on time. it starts at 3:30!

i just started learing how to play the commus, the national instrument(it looks kinda like a guitar), this week. i will put some pics up this week if i have time of me playing. it's pretty different from the guitar so it's kinda challenging but the students all think it's cool that i am playing. people like it when you they see you take an interest in things that are familiar to them. so it makes me even happier to be playing cause i know it makes the students happy. although honestly today i got kinda frustrated with it. i may have even pounded my fist on the table. alright, i suppose that's it for today...