Hello all my peepes!!!!

Hello everyone, sorry it has been so long since I last wrote. Life seems to always be way to busy to even be able to take a seat. We have had a guest staying with us for the past week. She is a wonderful girl that is trying to get her feet underneath herself in Minot. It has truly been a joy having her work with us and stay with us. I am at my parents home right now. I just got one of my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday. Ouch!! My best friend Mandie and I are going to celebrate our birthday together tonight. Have a great girls night out. I am sure it will consist of a lot of chocolate and junk food. Alyssa and Zoe are doing wonderful. They always have a great time at their grandparents homes. Alyssa has been out side the last two days with the horses. They are her love. She always says that she is going to be a animal rescuer when she grows up. Zoe she is still as happy as ever she always has a song on her lips. She can bring joy to any ones face. The Lord has blessed us with such wonderful kids. We are still in much needed help from our family and friends to help us with our support raising. There are days where I get overwhelmed and then that's when I know that I need to go have some quiet time with the Lord so He can encourage and strengthen me. I am really missing all our friends back at Bethany College. It will be refreshing to be able to go see some of them again when we go check in with our missions agency and the school. If any of our classmates are keeping up I just want to yell a shout out to you!!!! We have been able to keep up with some of our classmates. We are in contact with about five of our friend fairly often. Bonnie Youngdale is you are reading this I just want to say I miss you and want to thank you for all the time you invested in my family and myself. I really miss you. The girls also really really miss Rebecka. Well I better get going thanks yet again for keeping up with this journey the Lord has us on. I will write again soon. Mandy

another week of provision

Another week has went by and we are well on our way to getting settled in here in Minot for the duration of our stay. It it like an airplane ride, everything is amazing, new, wonderful, happy, and yet we know that it is only short lived. We are really ready for our next step in the faze of our lives, but we are learning patience, and faith. The building that we are living in has been up for sale, and I was told today that an offer came in on it, but has not been accepted yet. If it sells we are not sure where we are going to live, if we stay here I am not sure that we can afford it, and if we move, I am not sure where we would go. Please keep us in your prayers. This is not the first time that our living conditions have been in the gray area, and yet God has came through every time, so I am just waiting and praying, excited to see what God does for us this time.
We went to Devils Lake on Monday and the trip went awesome, we had fun, and it was the perfect rain day that we were looking for to make a road trip, so everything worked out great for us, Thank Jesus!! I ask that you all keep praying for our funds, as we are starting to fall a little behind in the monthly amount that we need saved up to go. We still have time to make it up, but we either need more people to help support us, or we need more jobs to provide that income. We know that all things are perfect in Gods will, and he will provide what we need, so once again as we press into Him in these little things, it will build our faith for the large things. We also thank God for keeping my family healthy, even in this time of transition, and "back to school" even though for us it is really more fitting to say "to school"since this is the first year for both of them. It has been wonderful living in Minot. Thank you all for your prayers, and we will talk again soon.

More of God

Hey guys, its been a while since we have had some time to sit and tell you all what has been happening. We are now in Minot. God has really provided a HUGE blessing here in town. Mandy and I have been busy, between meeting with Church's, meeting with people, working, and trying to be family. God has opened some big doors for us here in Minot. Mandy and I are officially contractors now, and working as much as we can to put all our money towards the trip to Mexico. We got the approval of New Hope Wesleyan yesterday to be there missionaries, that is another big thing that we are excited about. We have had some people step forward and start supporting us financially as well, thank Jesus for there willingness to support the ministry. We have been in contact with Bethany about our trip to Mexico as well, and things there are moving ahead. We are praising God for the things that He is putting in our lives, and doing for us. I have time to tell you a couple miracles that God is doing and I will post more later. We had a fairly large job that we had to do, and really needed an airless painter. We could have did it by hand, but it would have been 100 times the work, and time needed. We finally broke down and decided to buy one. After looking at used ones and trying to find something there we kept running into roadblocks. We decided that because of warranty issues and just reliability we should go find a reliable, but inexpensive sprayer. Well, after we picked out the one that we wanted a lady came up to us and asked us if we were the missionaries in town going to Mexico, we said yes. She told us that to support us, and our ministry she would buy the sprayer for us. Here is the kicker. Mandy and I did a job a couple days before and while we were there we felt like we were supposed to donate almost all our time and supplies to the family. They had a good run of bad luck and we were able to tell them about the love of Jesus through this. More than just tell them, we were able to show them. Well, we did it and went and told them right before we went sprayer shopping. We could not afford to do it, but if that what God wants, that is what we have to do. So after it was all said and done, we ended us with a sprayer donated to us that was equivalent to, or maybe even more than the value of our work that we donated. God really has been supplying for his people. Another miracle that we have to tell you about is the daycare/schooling that God provided. We had nothing for Zoe here, and the day cares that had openings here, were like that for a reason. We also wanted Zoe in pre-school to get a good base before going to Mexico. We figured it would be a long shot but we stopped at the best daycare in town. They had a waiting list a mile long. Everything that we went after wasn't working. After 1 week of pulling our hair out, we finally gave it to God. Many felt like we were supposed to go back to ABC Childcare (The good one) and talk to the lady that told us they were full. We went back in and they told here that they were going to be opening us another 3 year old wing in the Church very soon. They also said that they would be willing to let Zoe in as soon as it opened. Well it did, and one week later she was in. God also provided a place for Zoe for the week that we were waiting. What a Huge answer to prayer. Thank you Lord for all that you are doing for us, even though we are not worthy. I would love to tell you more, but there is not enough time, so I will update later. Please keep us in your prayers as we are looking for people that are willing to come behind us and support us financially while we make this trip down south. Love you all and God Bless, Good night.

No we didn't fall of the face of the earth

Sorry that we have not wrote lately. We just got internet yesterday and have not had time to keep up with our blog. We are now in Minot, ND starting our fundraising. We just got into our apartment and are trying to adjust to the new schedule. The girls are loving school and we are loving working together. We promise to type more within the next couple days. It is late and have to get up really early tommorow. Please check back for more of a up to date letter on our plans. Many blessing Mandy Johnston