Liz's Birthday!

Hi Everyone!

Brian and I had a wonderful day yesterday celebrating my birthday. I can't believe we get to live in such a beautiful place right now and was so blessed to celebrate my birthday here. Brian took me down to a place called Simon's Town (a popular tourist place where hundreds of penguins live). We sat on the rocks in the sun and watched the penguins go about their day then walked through the town and had lunch at a wonderful seafood restaurant right on the beach.

I have the day off today and then will head back into the townships where my team is living and ministering. I taught in a seminar last week at one of the churches in the surrounding areas. We walked them through a week long study of an overview of the bible. The church members were so excited to learn things about the bible that they had never known to even exist! We ended the seminar on Saturday with a big Braai (South African bbq) with all the church members and our team. We have had such wonderful people to work with in all the churches we've visited and really feel like family to so many of them already!

Brian and I are doing pretty well balancing our two different trainings right now. I have been able to come back to Muizenberg quite often to see him and take part in his DTS. His school baked me a cake and had a little party with me yesterday, which was incredibly nice of them. I feel like i've really been able to bond with them even with me traveling back and forth so often, which will benefit us very much when we go on outreach together to Thailand in a month. I think we've had a lot of grace with trying to balance being in 2 places at once and it hasn't seemed overwhelming or too difficult on either of us, thank God.

We appreciate all of your support and prayers for us during this time! Thank you all for your notes and emails on my birthday! It helped make my day really special. We love you!