Wow, it’s been a month since I’ve written!

On Nov 7th, Carol and I went to Yachatts, OR to a beach house that is owned by a missionary family. They allow other missionaries to stay for a small donation, or in our case we did some deep cleaning and repairs. What a joy to be with my bride one on one for a week!

We washed all the windows inside and out, including cleaning the mold, De-cob web the living room ceiling, removed and dusted the train and nic-nacs on the window sill, cleaned out the hair ball in the master bath sink, reattached the “gutter” on the shower door so as to drain into the shower, stripped and re-waxed the kitchen floor, sanded and refinished the worn word work on the kitchen cabinets and counter moldings, rebuilt the light above the sink, cleaned out the rain gutters, mowed the lawn, fixed the leak in the chimney, replaced rotten wood under the top window on deck, and attached the slider window to the downstairs storm door. Scraped excess caulk from the deck windows and reopened the drain on each window so the water wouldn’t accumulate and rot the sills. (The list was longer, but Carol asked me to edit it.) )

All in all we had a restful time in Yachatts! The library there issued us a card, so we could check out movies…. as many as we wanted! (They treat us better than the Salem library!)
We came back to Salem and started with the maintenance crew here. I’ve been busy with raking leaves, cleaning out the rain gutters, and doing some tile work in the bathrooms. Carol was able to borrow some upholstery tools from her mother, so she has found it easier to re upholster the couches here on the base.

We also visited our “home church” in Klamath Falls on the weekend before Thanksgiving. We had a good time of sharing with our family there, then to Carol’s sister’s home in Tennant for a Kear family Thanksgiving. Yeah God! Good food, and lots of time to visit with our new niece and nephew.

We are excited about our upcoming trip to Myanmar. Teaching English allows us to have lots of contacts there and they want to talk with us! What a deal, we get to love on them! We plan on leaving on January 1, and returning on March 29th. I can’t guarantee regular communication, but we will take our laptop just in case!

We had a good start on our support raising for our upcoming trip. About half of the needed money has come in for our airfare. Please continue to lift up our need there, and remember to pray that we would glorify Christ in all of our activity!

I will post some more pictures on our website www.welykins.com wrapping up our time in Mexico, and our time in Yachatts.

May you experience the wonderful presence of our Lord and King…. daily! And may people notice the Prince of Peace hanging out with you!

Merry Christmas,
Love,
Fred and Carol

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