More Turkey...

My sister likes my pictures...so here are a few more... First we start off with the Blue Mosque...probably the most famous mosque in Turkey. For sure it was beautiful inside... ...the entire interior was covered with hand-painted ceramic tiles. It was huge and we had to take off our shoesand carry them in a bag... Interesting thing though...as much as I enjoyed the building itself, I didn't really feel moved in any way.  It...

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Some prayer requests...

We had a meeting with the guys and our pastors this afternoon, about some things that happened while I was in Canada.  It wasn't anything that the guys did...in fact, it was something that one of the young guys in our church did to them.  He was kind of disrespectful to them in a rushed moment.  I know the guy and I know he feels bad.  But at the same time, the whole situation wasn't handled very well, and my guys ended up feeling pretty uncomfortable with what happened.  Anyhow, we talked it out finally today,...

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More pics of Turkey...

Well...the week continues.  I was at our Bible study at the church last night, and afterwards we all prayed together.  One of the guys prayed for us here at the house, and this morning it feels like things are improving.  There are still a few things that need to be dealt with, but I think that's starting to happen.  It seems some attitudes are better today anyhow. A couple of people have been asking if I'm going to...

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A quick prayer request...

If you have a moment today or tomorrow, I have something you can pray about.  I was laughing with Maribel on Thursday that I'm going have a big celebration when the day comes that everyone in the house is happy at the same time.  =)  She laughed and said that she'd celebrate right alongside me.  Right now, most of the guys are doing well.  Moods have been good...everyone's been helpful (they even scrubbed down the kitchen on Friday without being asked!)...things are happy.  All except for one guy.  He kind...

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David playing futbol...

Well...the game was a bit of a heartbreaker.  But it could have been worse.  It almost was.  David's team was mostly asleep in the first half.  The only reason the other team didn't trounce them was that they were playing into hurricane winds.  When the other guys got a goal early in the second half, I figured it was all over.  Then David and the guys woke up, realized they were in the middle of a game, and actually...

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