It's Been TOO long.

Hello Hello Hello,
I doubt any one is reading this any more. But you never know. I don't even know where we last ended. It has been crazy. We haven't been in the same place for more than a month since December.

So at the beginning of December Joel and I were supposed to go on vacation and see our families but things happened with the ship coming back from Israel so they flew Joel and I to the Canary Islands to meet the ship there and to help sail it back to Louisiana. We were at the Canary Islands for a week with the ship and then three weeks sailing. It was so hard and wonderful all at the same time. Hard because we were in vacation mode and then awesome because most of the crew on the ship were leaving Friend Ships right after the mission so we would not have been able to say good-bye had we been on vacation.

So we were sailing from December to January. Then From January to February we were asked to go to the Los Angeles Warehouse to take a look around and see if we wanted to stay at the warehouse perminatly. So for four weeks we stayed helped out and looked around and in the end felt it was where God was calling us next. So then we still needed to go on vacation.
That is when we drove back to Lousiana from California and then flew to Canada where we stayed with Joel's family for 4 weeks then 3 weeks with my family in Idaho/Washington. It was hard but restful and we were ready to conquer the world well the warehouse in LA.

So in April we were back in Louisiana got our Class B trucker license. Drove a big truck (not semi) to California. And have been here since the end of April beginning of May.
What an adventure eh? The funny thing is God gave me two words for my birthday. (I ask every year for God to give me a word for the year) This year it was Spontaneous Adventure. Hit that one right on the nose (But of course He did He is God)

It has been hard. Leaving our Friends and Family God provided for us the past 4 years in Louisiana. But we have stayed busy. We haven't had a weekend off since we got here. Which isn't any thing to brag about we have just been busy. The cool thing is God provided everything we needed to come down her to LA.

When we got married we didn't need anything because we lived on a ship and food was cooked for us, our laundery was done for us, and everything else a new couple starting off would need to do and have. So we recieved money instead. But it was always in the back of my mind. God some day we are going to need dishes and towels and all that other fun stuff that people start out with. Well you know what God provided once again. Should I be suprised, NO. But I am astonished how He provided. One of our best Friends Chuck and Janet had moved to Lake Charles and left everything in California so they had to buy all new things to live on. Dishes, towels, etc. Well they got everything from California to Lake Charles and they gave all their stuff they had bought in Louisiana to us. Just when we needed it. Then a friend of mine was moving from Houston back to Montana and she and her wonderful man gave us stuff we needed too. God is so awesome. He has been providing right and left. There are plenty of other testimonies but I might go into them later. Also people here are starting to get to know us and they have given us things we needed and we didn't even ask. There are days I just think and say hey we really need this and then Wam bam God provides it the next day or week with me not even asking. What an awesome God we serve.

I know this is long but there is more. SO at the warehouse we have stray Cats. Yikes they are making a mess. Pray that God will take care of them. So any way we found the first week we were here 3 kittensand then two days later we found 3 more. So we gave the latter 3 away and kept the first 3. Goodness. So we have 3 cats, one bird (that we brought with us from Louisiana, and one Dog that is a warehouse dog. Well two days ago we had a chance to get a puppy and guess what we did. Dynamite is his name and mutt is his game. Lame I know. SO we have a mutt named Dynamite who we want to train to come with us on our truck runs. I really want him to come to be a protector. I know God protects but I like having a big big dog with me. Did I mention Big he is going to be huge. His mom is half wolf half german shepard and his dad well I don't know what his dad is couldn't tell.

SO yeah that is our life in a nut shell. Crazy or what. Well there is so much more but that will be for another blog.

Love you all.
God is soooooooooooo good,
Dess