Our home away from home

We just moved into our cosy 1 bedroom apartment on the Trinity University grounds. Praise God for Chris' people mover. All the seats fold into the floor of the car so we were able to transport all the big furniture items in his car. Our rental car (a cute Chrysler PT Cruiser) was also quite a good car to move our belongings; we were able to fold down the seats as well and made several trips back and forth with all the smaller items. We moved on Saturday and we are pretty much settled in. We have been so blessed .....most of our apartment is furnished with free furniture! We even got some appliances for free (an analog tv, a rice cooker, a coffee maker).



It just snowed last night (the first time we have seen fresh snow! - we have seen snow on the ground, from the last snow storm about 2 weeks ago, which is generally a yucky grey colour). All the ground, our rental car and the trees are covered in snow. It is really beautiful - all white and clean. The snow flakes are really amazing .... they are little miracles in themselves ..... so intricately formed, it's really wonderful to see God's amazing creation.



We have been really busy getting everything set up - from our phones, to electricity, to getting a car, to enrolling in our subjects, to getting settled, to setting up the internet. The university has internet but we have been finding that we can't really skype or VOIP back to Australia with it. So we have had to get our own internet connected, which won't happen until next week.

Classes also begin next week and we have orientation starting on Monday. It is kind of strange to go back to University, after working for so many years. I'm taking 5 subjects this semester and Jono is going to be doing 6 subjects (but Jono's doing about 1.5 times more work than what I'm doing). Pray that we will get great lecturers and that we not only do well but that we really get to know God's heart better.

We went to the "Living Word Christian Center", which is about 40 minutes away from our place, on Sunday (thanks Doug for the recommendation). It is a huge church with about 18,000 members! There was a real freedom in the worship and in the true style of an African-American church there was a lot of audience participation with people just getting into the preaching of God's word. I think we definitely will be going back to this church.