People

We have been meeting people as of late. Nice for me especially.


New people #1 - A family up the street. They have a couple of boys that ride their bikes and scooters up and down the street. The girls and Gids like to hide from them. We have talked to the mom a bit. She told us about an awesome park a few minutes away. Maybe we can have them over for a BBQ sometime?

New people #2 - Our neighbors' son Theo. He is Greek. He and Brandon spent the better part of 30 minutes talking about Bible and religious stuff. He came into the house to retrieve his niece who was playing with our kids and we started talking about soccer. He follows the men's premier team pretty closely. Soccer is an important conversation topic to have tucked away in a neighborhood like this.

New people #3 - Lady across the street. I was asking Theo's mom about the name of our strange fruit tree out back. She didn't know the name of it so she yelled across the street to Deena. Deena is also Greek and knows her plants well. According to her we have a cherry guava tree. They are little reddish round things. Kind of remind of a miniature pomegranate. In taste more like a strawberry/pomegranate/something else. Deena told me how to make jam out of them. We now have three jars of jam with more on the way.

New people #4 - American family, met at the new awesome park the neighbors told us about. The accent always gives it away :-) The mom and kids just arrived in January. So they are newbies all the way. They are of Jewish heritage. They have three kids all about our kids' ages as well. It was nice to talk about basketball, Purdue, IU, how expensive Australia is  and other things that flow easily when meeting someone else from your home country.

New people #5 - Jehovah Witnesses that keep coming back. They have visited four times now. I thought after the third visit they were done with me but apparently not.  Although these meetings have been frustrating at times it has been good to strengthen my understanding of their beliefs as well as my own. I am trying to be patient and loving.

You could pray for that these relationships might grow and that we would have opportunities to talk to them about Jesus. Also give thanks that we are meeting new friends. It is always nice to have people around to talk to.