Stench

Scotty and I were greeted with a blast of rotting meat smell as we entered our house last night. Scotty followed his nose to the refrigerator where we found that at some point during the week the circuit breaker had flipped and our fridge shut off. EVERYTHING that could go bad, did. There was a nice trail of meat blood that had congealed on the outside and in a nice puddle on the floor. Once you got past the smell (actually, we never got past the smell), it was amusing to see our food in various states of decomposition. My favorite was the can of biscuits that I had stored in the door that had popped and jumped from the door onto the shelf, leaving a little biscuit blop behind. We have acrobatic food.


Here is the evidence found in the door, with the rest of the biscuit oozing out of the can on the shelf.


Besides the obvious initial inconvenience, we are so glad to be home and back in prep mode. The rest of our Minneapolis adventure was great, spending much of our weekend with various friends and doing lots of barbequeing. Sunday we attended the "All church outdoor service" at Bethlehem Baptist Church, and were blessed to be commissioned by Pastor John, along with 2 other missionary couples. God is stirring in our hearts much anticipation and desire to gird ourselves with prayer as we look towards these 7 weeks before take-off.

Joe, Scotty, and Kevin. The 2 other guys are actually standing on small stools to try and make Scotty look average height.

Our awesome hosts, Joe and Anne. These 2 little guys are Andrew and Caleb, sons of our friends the Harmes.

Scotty doing the Heisman with Kaya, daughter of our friends, the Vanderheidens.