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September news

                                                                              (Saturday, Sept. 5)

   Hello, everyone!  It's a little past 11:00 PM.  Roger and I just enjoyed ice pops together - he had a late nap, and isn't sleepy yet.  Marcus went preaching this evening with his cousin Wilbur Graybill, and several other brethren.
   We've been staying at Bro. Joe Yoder's place for almost 3 weeks now.  He and his wife Fannie's children are all married, and they have a big house, with two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs for us.  Marcus is busy working on Bro. Joe's vehicles.  He finished a car and pickup, and is in the midst of work on a small tractor, I believe.  Several weeks ago Marcus Brubaker, from Versailles, gave my Marcus a motorcycle, to take to Mexico.  So he's working on that some, too.  It sure is nice to have a good shop for him to work in, when it's rainy like it's been the last few days.
   Megan, Maury, and Randall study most days.  Roger walks around talking to and distracting them. :|  Just lately I printed out some new charts for them - that gives more incentive to do flashcards.  Clayton is 10 months old today.  Just yesterday he started clapping his hands.  We also discovered that he really likes the song "Only a boy named David" (especially in Spanish).  He gets all excited and makes his hands go "around and around" too.  :)
   I try to help Fannie with whatever I can.  Today I got mowing done, and made a Mexican supper.  Last week I sewed together a bunch of patches for a crib quilt.  I've also been experimenting with her new embroidery machine.  She wants to use it to embroider verses on the quilts she makes for her grandchildren.  Oh, and another project for this week was to help Sis. Becky Hopper sew some jumpers.  She and her husband Johnathan and two little boys are to fly back to the Philippines next Wednesday.
   Today the neighbor children brought their little pony over for our children to ride.  They sure enjoyed that!  Even Clayton had a little ride with Megan. 
   (Tuesday)  Sisters Liz, Joanna, and I helped Becky do some packing this morning.  They are to fly across the sea tomorrow afternoon, Lord willing.  We will surely miss them here, but we know that the brethren over there will be so glad to have them back.  And what a blessing the communication that we can have nowadays is, through e-mails and telephone, etc. 

   We plan to be with Joe's for a couple more days yet, and then come stay at the church house for a little while.  We also hope to spend a week or so with Wilbur and Joanna before we leave for our home in Mexico again. 

   Time to go.  God bless you!