We put up our tree today! We had hoped to go to Boone yesterday to my mom's cousin's tree farm and pick out our tree (like we did last year), but it snowed 3 inches there. We were a bit disappointed, but maybe next year!
Here's a few more Christmas decoration pictures!
It's been cold this week and Jason & I are feeling it! We've had sore throats and sneezing! But we are thankfully not sick.
Jason's work will probably get busier, since his co worker retired on Monday. He had to work overtime two hours on Wednesday, but will be off the whole week of Christmas. Everyone else took off, so Jason is using 12 hours comp time and 1/2 day of vacation. It works out great!
We talked about humility and Christ's sacrifice in life group. We're on the "love is not boastful" line of 1 Corinthians 13. Saturday, I worked at nursery for church, which was easy. Jason worked out in the yard for a bit.
Yesterday afternoon, we watched "Beyond the Gates of Splendor", which I borrowed from my co worker. It's a documentary film about the 1956 murders of five missionary men in Ecuador by the Waodoni, a tribe of violence that has since become peaceful.
I'm familiar with the story since Jason and I watched "The End of the Spear" back when we dated. It's one of my favorite films and made a huge impact on me. The five men wanted to befriend the Waodoni to share Christ's love, knowing that no outsider had made peaceful contact with them.
A few years after the murders, Elisabeth Elliot, her daughter, and Rachel Saint moved into their territory, living with the men who killed Elliot's husband and Saint's brother. Evenually, the tribe members came to Christ, and stopped killing others.
The documentary had each widow tell really sweet stories of their young marriages and life in Ecuador. The hardest part was one of the men from the search party talking about seeing Nate Saint's body. He couldn't even put the rope on him to pull him out of the river.
It's such a remarkable story. Nate Saint's children were later baptized by saved Waodani men who killed their father. What a true representation of the power of Christ's love and forgiveness!
I'm doing the Corinth Women's newsletter and I want to profile Elisabeth Elliot's books about this story and these films since they died on January 8th.
Saturday night, we ate at Panera Bread, then went to Kohls to shop for a child that CFA has adopted from the Family Guidance Center (which has a shelter for women coming out of domestic violent relationships). We enjoy buying clothes for her! Before Thanksgiving, we shopped for a child from the ALFA organization (deals with people and families impacted by AIDS) that our TNT bible study adopted.
Then, we went to Abigail and Greg's to celebrate his birthday and enjoyed watching football and playing Apples to Apples. I think we're going to go to Chapel Hill on Saturday to watch Newton Conover play in the state high school championship. Greg is one of the coaches.
Today, we've spending some time resting since we've decorated the tree. We're watching "King Kong" tonight at TNT.
Last week, we had some friends over to play Wii, which was fun! Here's some videos of boxing!
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