Dear friends,
Carol and I are doing well. Our living situation is a bedroom and bath in a busy household. Three children, Rachael 11, Joshua 7, and Rebecca 3. Mom is from Michigan and Dad is from the Cook Islands. He is big boned and dark skinned like a Samoan. They are long timers and great people.

Our school is a 20 minute bus ride from the house. The bus costs 10 cents. A taxi would cost $2. The ride to church is twice as long and cost twice as much. Since the service starts at 2:30, we’ve avoided the bus, because we desired to arrive “fresh.” However, we are going to attempt the bus today so as to save the taxi fare. The church is bilingual with the pastor from Singapore speaking in English. If we leave early, we’ll have time to “freshen up” after we get there.

Our internet cafe is a five minute walk and costs 40 cents an hour. We eat a large lunch at the school M-W-F and fend for ourselves for breakfast. We have dinner with the family a few times a week, and cold cereal in our room a few days a week.

The guitar lessons with the orphan children are going well. They have 10 guitars available, so I have 10 girls the first hour, and 10 boys the next. The boys are more advanced. After the first session, I realized that they don’t need guitar lessons. As I prayed about it I thought, “How about instruction on leading worship?” So I’m asking the Lord to give me wisdom in teaching them to lead worship. What an awesome privilege.

I have been emailing with Alan weekly, and FB with Rachael and Amber. Jaime is busy with school, so we aren’t able to chat as often. We haven’t seen our grandchilden for two years now so are praying about a trip to Colorado soon.

I finally was able to upload some pictures, (you have to start early in the morning!) so if you visit our site www.welykins.com you can see them there.

Blessings to you and yours!
Fred and Carol

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