Report #7, Oct 16

Report 7 Thursday 16th Oct 08

We woke up to a dull foggy day and got ready to leave for Ivano Frankivsk.
We plan to spend the next two weeks there. Flo was busy unpacking some of
the 17 boxes she had just received from herself two days ago. What a mixture
of shoes, socks and children's clothes. She has an over abundance of every
size of socks and so gave us a large bag of socks to take to Ivano.

At about 9:30 two men arrived to begin laying a ceramic floor in the
kitchen. No one had told Flo when they coming so they took us all by
surprise. Ruslan brought the men as they do not have a vehicle, also Tania
his wife came plus one of our former drivers. So to say the least it was
wall to wall people for an hour until Vadym our driver arrived to take us
away. What a mess we left with the whole floor ripped up and piled in the
hallway waiting to go down in the elevator!! It should look nice when we
get back.

We had an uneventful but rainy trip to Ivano, it takes a good hour and a
half for the trip with half an hour for lunch on the way in a lovely
restaurant in the forest.

We went straight away to look at the first apartment Vadym had looked at for
us and took it right away. It is a semi-basement suite in and old home on a
quiet street right downtown. It is a large bedroom living/ bedroom with
three beds, a kitchen with fridge, micro wave, kettle and dishes also a
bathroom. Every thing is spotlessly clean and very sufficient for our needs.

Well a meeting was planned for 5 pm in the Meeting Room. When we arrived
there was a crowd waiting to get in and by the end 26 people came to
meeting, we were so blessed. We both spoke and The Lord gave help. There
were 4 or 5 people who we had not seen before including one young man.

The next meeting will be on Sunday at 4pm then a bible reading on Tuesday at
5pm.

We came home and made ourselves a light supper, we need to go shopping but
will do this tomorrow.

I got the King size bed again as the other two beds had "hammock" spring
mattresses and Howard said he could sleep in one of those but I felt I would
have a problem. I might have not had a "hammock" bed but neither did I have
a Sealy Posturpedic. The mattress is only about a 4 inches deep spring
mattress. Thankfully I was able to sleep well with only a little hip pain !!

Good night and continue to pray for our visit with many unsaved that someone
will respond to the gospel.

Malcolm & Howard