Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Celebrating our grandson birthday in Pittsburgh

Martha and I on our first week back have landed on late Monday in LA to celebrated our daughter birthday the following Wednesday and then flew out on Friday to make it for our grandson birthday on Saturday...his first birthday and how sweet it was to be there!


We have a tradition to allow the babies to try eating a piece of their birthday cake by themselves...it's funny to watch as they love it and yet don't know if it's ok to do? 

Of course Oma came with surprises for the grandsons...Eli favorite one are kinder eggs...from Herbornseelbach to Los Angeles to Pittsburgh...these eggs have flown many miles with special love from Oma!
 



Thankfulness from our hearts

Yes in America it's been the "Thanksgiving Season Holidays" but we really have things to be thankful for, that's being able to serve the German brethren and to learn much about serving while serving!

We are truly thankful for the many opportunities to serve with many who's hearts were the same...to worship and serve Jesus! It's through the Word of God that our hearts were really ministered too by the Holy Spirit which lead us to serve together in a unity the Lord who gave His whole life in serving us!

It really showed us when it was time to leave and so many showed up to load the container and the joy of the Lord was there!

Then, when we were loading the the shocking reality was before Martha and I and that was that all we had wasn't going to fit into the container!!!

It was then that immediately the saints said don't worry your stuff will be sent, we will take of it for you! That's amazing servanthood we experienced our last day in Herbornseelbach, God's people caring and loving!! One thing I know according to the Word of God is;

Hebrew 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which you have showed toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

Going the extra mile in serving is a great blessing to others and we experienced it...thankfulness is in our hearts for those who helped loading the container and to those that helped to send the second load!!

We are so thankful this Thanksgiving season with wonderful friends and servants of the Lord that have blessed us in such a great way that we can only give glory to the Lord for the work He has done in the hearts of these saints!

Many blessings upon you all

Edmund and Martha

The California warmth, from the weather and the family

As we left the cold weather coming in Germany to the freezing weather in Iceland we were now going to an extreme opposite weather!!

We had for the first few days temperatures 85f (29c) to 95f (35c) and it was a real shocking extreme...but I was loving every minute of it! Jimmy came over to bring our luggage the team brought for us and asked how I like the the new bright and sunny weather and I smiled and said I love it!


One thing I noticed and Martha too was that our hip / leg joints didn't hurt, the warm weather took it away...I know it to be true as we now flew to Pittsburgh where it's cold we got the pains back! It's amazing how that works??

But one thing I like about Pittsburgh it is very much influence by European lifestyle and my son in law James took us to all the good shop to buy European food...we are breaking away from Herbornseelbach slowly!!


The meats and cheeses were so good and the city very nice with amazing unity, the sports teams here is what unites this city like no other city in America, whether football, baseball or hockey but it made me think about the church of Jesus Christ...unity is important to win against the devil plans!!

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Back in Good Old USA


Martha and I left Germany with sad hearts as we left so many we love and care for, we were running as we left to the airport to meet up with the CC Downey team that was to take extra luggage for us back to America.

We took off from Frankfurt to Iceland and was amazed at the land and how cold it was!!



We landed on Monday evening and we went to dinner with my mom, sister and nice afterwards looked through our luggage trying to find something to wear to bed! We were very tired and ready for a good sleep!

Tuesday was a day of unpacking things and have visitors come by to say welcome home! We prepared for the next day for our daughters birthday and shopping for Thursday, Thanksgiving Day in where family gathered and we had a great feast!



Then, we had our second Thanksgiving dinner at James and Jenell's house in Pittsburgh...both California & Pittsburgh were special times with our kids and grandkids!


What a great start for our new adventure!!