We arrived safely in Detroit and without any problems whatsoever with our flights.  We are having tons of fun with Silas already. Kent and Josh will be doing some projects over the weekend when Josh is off work!

 Have a gret New Year!

 

Love, Jan and Kent Reimer

Yes, actually Kent and I both are flying to Detroit to be with Josh, Teresa and our only grandson, 3 year old Silas for Christmas. We fly on Christmas day so we will be with them just at the end of the day.  But the flights were so much cheaper that way. We even fly through Denver and have an almost 3 hour layover there. We are hoping to see Kara and Nick then too. That would make my day!

Well, we had thought to make this a surprise for Josh but then changed our minds because half of the fun of a visit is thinking about it ahead of time.. So we called and told him.  He was a little surprised then.  I love fun surprises like that.

We are settled in on the campus of the College. We are so glad to be able to be here. I plan on volunteering again once the semester gets started. So for now we are in Phoenix, Arizona. And yes, the weather is pleasant compared to most of the rest of the country. But I am looking forward to some snow.  

I pray that you all have a very Merry Christmas and have time to slow down to think of all that Jesus gave up in coming as an infant...wow!

Merry Christmas!!
Love, Jan for the Roving Reimers

We drove from Bakersfield, California on Dec 8th...yes more than a week ago. When we are “on the road” I seldom have internet access. We drove to a place outside of Lake Havasu City, Arizona. We stayed at a nice campground there. We met the owners who were believers and even had Kent speak on Wednesday morning before we left. They were so sweet.

We went into Lake Havasu City for the day on Tuesday. We actually had read about the town and heard about the famous London bridge that had been rebuilt there. Well the bridge was nice but the area around it well it was a big disappointment. There were shops and some rides on the lake but it all seemed very touristy and run down. There were some shops that were even totally closed. We walked along the small harbor where there was a nice hotel but we were not impressed positively with any of it. I wold not go out of my way to see the bridge although it was interesting that it actually had been used for a very long time in London and then in the 1970’s was torn apart and rebuilt in Lake Havasu City.

From there we drove to Quartzsite, Arizona. This is a community that has grown up since I think 1974. it is really a place for “snowbirds.” A snow bird is someone who is from the north coming south to escape the snow in their areas. There were so many RV places and there are also lots of free 2 week dry camping(no water, sewer or electric). Kent had read a lot about it and we’d heard lots of people talk about camping there. So we had wanted to do it sometime. So we went to camp for two days. We knew we could do without electric that long. it was a little cool still, nothing like the weather up north though. We did have one day that was nice enough to cook over an open fire. We could have fires and I love to sit by the campfire. We even made some friends with some of the folks nearby and had two couples over to our house for dessert and coffee. That was fun!

I was ready to go though on Saturday morning. So we were getting ready to travel, which entails a fairly long check list so as not to forget something and have problems. So I was putting in the slides. I always watch them to make sure they are acting normally. Good thing! As the bedroom slide looked wrong as soon as it started to move. I stopped it right away and called Kent..he was already on his way in. He too had seen that there was a problem from the outside. Well, 2 hours later we were able to go down the road. Kent fixed it so that we could get into Phoenix safely but then has spent the last two days finishing it. Basically the bed came apart from the sliding mechanism. What a ordeal to get at it. Our house was in an uproar but I am sooo glad that my husband has the knowledge and experience to fix things like this. Other wise we would have had to limp into an RV dealership and hope they could fix it. Instead Kent was able to fix it as we sat still. So much nicer!

So now that is fixed and Kent spent some time fixing a few other things on the house that needed looking after. that is he did that in between several calls and a hour long conference. So his day was full. As was mine I finally dug out our Christmas decorations. Yes, I even have a little tree. Our house looks festive now.

We went to small group Christmas party of the church we will probably attend while parked here. We had visited the church last winter and liked it. So now we wanted to get to know some people there. That was fun! We also are hosting a little 3 couple get together on Monday night. This helps me not to miss doing all that entertaining over the holidays in our house.

Love and Merry Christmas, Jan for the Roving Reimers

Me neither, until today!  And I bet everyone has been touched by a product from this town today.  This is the site of a Boron mine. What is Boron? It is an element that is found in and on the ground and is currently being mined in Boron  and has been since 1925.

You may have heard of the Twenty Mule Team Borax Laundry Detergent booster? Well, we went to the museum today and learned a lot.  The mine is one of the largest boron mine on the earth. It is over a mile long, 1 1/2 miles wide and 500 feet deep! BIG! Here is a picture of it at this site: http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/CA4982/

Boron and it’s forms are used in over 1000 products!!! From computers, cosmetics, medicines, wood treatments, fiberglass, fertilizers, glazes on ceramics and glassware, like Pyrex, etc., to soap, and even a special flame retardant on the Space Shuttle.  So in some way, I am sure that your life is affected by boron is some form every day!

Former President Ronald Reagan used to host a show called “Death Valley Days” and it was sponsored by Borax.  Also the 20 mule team...yes in the 1880’s they actually brought the ore from Death Valley to the railroad at Mojave, that was over 165 miles.  It was an incredible and treacherous journey and they did indeed use a 20 mule team to do it. REALLY AMAZING!! Check out this site if you want to know more: http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/borax-20muleteam.htm

We then had been told(from a forum) about a great Mexican restaurant in the town of Boron. Domingo’s was indeed a great treat! We even met Domingo himself and he was a wonderful host and I think he was a believer.  He was one of the nicest and most gracious hispanic person that I have met in many years.

The town of Boron is quite small. Between the mine that has over 800 workers and Edwards Air Force Base, this little restaurant has plenty of business. This Air Force Base is where the Space Shuttle lands IF it can NOT land in Florida. Obviously Domingo has served many of the astronauts and he was telling me of a ride that he got on a fighter jet, all because he knew a general that came in to his restaurant often.  FUN stuff!

Well, that was our day. I hope you had a good one too!

Love from the Roving Reimers
 

Many times people ask that of us and you know...I don’t know how to respond! Am I from Denver, because that is where I last owned a house? Am I from Pennsylvania where I grew up? I have a South Dakota driver’s license, but I have never lived there.  I right now live in Bakersfield, California where we are parked.  So how should I answer this question for people?  I don’t know! 

We are going to a different church each Sunday as we keep moving along.  So it is always on Sundays that I am asked this question the most. And if I say that I live in an RV..they either think a BIG, EXPENSIVE Motorhome..or a junky trailer.  So their eyes glaze over. 

Going to a different church all the time is one of the hardest things that we do. Well, I should say it is hardest for me.  Kent sticks out his hand and gives his name and people seem to want to talk to him.  When they ask my name, and I say “I’m Jan” They almost always stumble over my name.  I keep wondering if I say it in a funny way still. I know that my Pennsylvania accent does come through at times. BUT...

Anyway, some struggles of life on the road.  We leave Bakersfield tomorrow and we are still looking for that elusive sunshine. We have had a few minutes to a few hours but have had very little of it in the past week. We are now heading East towards Arizona. 

We are not in a hurry as we want to arrive at South Western college after this Friday. The students will be done with classes and most will be off the campus after Friday.  Then we can get our big house and truck in place and not be in danger of being hit by students or hitting them.  The facilities are pretty close so, we wanted to be extra careful.

Love to you all from,
Jan for the Roving Reimers

 Kent and I moved Wednesday from the RV park in Central Oregon that we had been in for two weeks. It as a nice safe,  secure and friendly park but we were ready for some sunshine. so we headed for California.  

As we traveled down Interstate 5 we went about 3 hours in Oregon and the weather was foggy,  a little bit of sunshine and then overcast sky...as we entered California just north of Mt Shasta we came over the pass and Wow what a difference! Sunshine! In every direction with a beautiful blue sky behind it.  What a glorious sight! It was almost as if God had come down and gave us this sunshine to perk up our spirits.  Thank You Lord!

As soon as we could we pulled off and hooked up the car.  We can tow it as well as the RV in California and so we get to ride together again for the first time since June.

We traveled through some really pretty country and around Mt Shasta we stopped for a picture of our RV and the mountain. We drove on till about 3:00 when we came to a park where we can use our 50% discount. It was quite always from the freeway and so cell phone coverage was scanty and the broadband would not work at all.  So we knew we’d only stay one night. Kent especially needs to have internet use each night.


So we left Thursday morning about 9:30am. We had a good drive before lunch. We drove on through Sacramento and on to Stockton looking for a place that was said to be a free place to stop. We go into some horrendous downtown traffic with 4 lanes going our direction.  I was more than ready to be off the road.  We could not find the place..so we looked on the internet again (yes, the broadband works anywhere close to civilization). We went back through some of the traffic to I-5 and started down the highway to another “free site”. Unfortunately we could not stay there and after we ate a hurried supper we packed up in the dark and headed to a rest stop that someone told us was a place where we could stay.  Well we got there and sure enough there were some RVs already for the night there.  So we settled in for the night after deciding where we would park the next night we went to bed early as we were tired.  

After a good sleep we left the rest stop about 8:30 am and went on down the road to Bakersfield, California.  Well it wasn’t sunny today until we were hooking up at the RV park..so we do thank God for that sunshine.  We are in a valley of lots and lots of fruit from grapes and vineyards, almonds, oranges, grapefruit and pistachios that we could identify.  It is a pretty valley.

We will be here for several days.  We hope to go to see Sequoia National Park tomorrow.   

Love Jan for the Roving Reimers

Anytime the holidays are upon me like this week with Thanksgiving around the corner, I get “homesick.” No, it isn’t that I want to go home, as my mom hasn’t done a holiday dinner for our family for at least 15 years. But it is that I want to be with those I love, I can’t tell you how much I am missing being with our children at times like this. I would be content to be with one or the other even but to be without either one seems somehow “wrong.”  So therefore my homesickness.  

Now, I want to say that our children, the wonderful young adults that they are, are responsible, God fearing adults and we are soooo proud of them and happy that they are doing so well.  But lately, even our son Josh has seemed to want us to come for a visit and that he says he misses us, well that makes me want to jump on the next plane, and then add the way I am feeling today!

We are still in Central Oregon. We were here to have Thanksgiving with some friends of ours from our days when we lived in Alaska. they had a family tragedy recently and we thought to come and encourage them. Ha! They have been such a blessing to us.  God really carried them through this whole thing.  

But hearing their story just made me want to see our children all the more.  If you are one of our friends that prays for us..please pray as I need God’s presence during this time.

May God bless you with much peace and His love at this time.


Jan for the Roving Reimers

PS on this blog. I just didn’t feel right putting this on our blog..until I was feeling a bit better.  So tonight I am and tomorrow we are on the move again. We leave the cloudy days of fall in Oregon and are going to sunny California, on our way to Phoenix.  So I am looking forward to that. 

We have moved again, this time to Sutherlin, Oregon.  We are at an RV park and getting some much needed office work done.  I am working on our Thanksgiving cards and Kent is catching up on all kinds of office work.

First of all, I went out to find the local Curves and I worked out yesterday  We even got a short walk in too, although our weather was mostly rainy all day. There were short periods every few hours when the sun came out, so we tried to get a walk in. We were out about 15 minutes when it started to pour down on us, well a quick run back home.  

The beauty of coastal Northwest is a lot of large, lush evergreen trees. But along with over 60 inches of rain a year it has other things too. We saw lots of moss growing on trees as we traveled. I was used to seeing the mold growing on the trees and lots of mushrooms in the grasses etc., but the moss surprised me.  

Any of you who have known us for very long, would know that we used to live in South East Alaska.  When we lived in Ketchikan we used to get an average 150 inches of rain a year. So this weather is not a surprise to us but, it just reminds us of our time in SE Alaska. The beautiful green forest comes at the price of lots of rain to maintain it. So we get rainy days like we had these past few days.

In this park where we are, we have some beautiful views. When we walk around the park, I usually forget to take my camera, but I should. We saw black tailed deer, a buck and doe, as well as several jack rabbits, that is the ones with the really big ears and about 7 wild turkey. Kent felt those turkey were pretty brave walking around so close to Thanksgiving.  But NO, I think these turkey are safe as they are wild ones and no one is hunting around here. All of these animals are so comfortable in this park that there are strict warnings against feeding them, or they would become a nuisance.

Well, I do pray that you have a good day. Ours started out very foggy but is starting to look sunnier. With our temps only in the 40’s overnight I still have some pretty geraniums blooming for me.  Yeah! I love flowers!

Love,

Jan for the Roving Reimers

Any of you who have seen the Oregon Coast know how beautiful it is!!  Kent and I had been there only once before and Kent knows that every once in awhile I need a “beach fix.”  What I mean by that, is that I want to go to a beach some. and even though Kent doesn’t enjoy the sticky, sandy beaches he will for a limited time take me.  No swimming, this time of year in Oregon, but a beach all the same.  I love hearing the waves wash up on the shoreline and when the weather is pretty  I love walking along the beach. I got all of that today and much more.

As we drove to our next spot we wove our way to the coast coming to the beach at Yakina Point lighthouse. There are lighthouses all along the coast, but it was the beach and scenery I wanted to see this time, as we did tour the lighthouses on another trip. So we stopped for a lunch with the beach and waves crashing just outside our window! I loved it.  It was so warm, in the 60’s, so we left our screen door open.  How special!  After lunch we saw some beaches that were more rocky and even with a wreath of fog around the hillsides.  Just really nice.

We are currently parked in an RV park in Coos Bay, Oregon.  We are here as Kent will be speaking to a church missions committee on Tuesday.  But when we went to church on Sunday, we were warmly welcomed and several families had a potluck after the services for us.   Kent was able to coach an adult couple and their family from this church to go with WorldVenture to Ivory Coast this past summer for a  month. They helped at the hospital as the man is a radiology technician. There are possibilities of them returning. So it is an especially good meeting for this couple to hear first hand about their experience but also for the church to move toward a deeper relationship with WorldVenture.  We are so excited for what God has planned here.

Here is an addition to this blog as this one was written earlier and did not get posted...

Today was another beautiful and unseasonably warm day! so we took off and went to the coast again. We went to several spots along the coast, one called Cape Arago  and a little inlet right before it. We actually hiked down to the beach which was strewn with lots of driftwood and found a huge driftwood log that we first sat on and then lay down on and took a little snooze!  It was about 70 degrees and in the inlet almost no wind and so warm, sunny and quiet because we were the only ones there.  It was just gorgeous and just what my soul needs from time to time.  We hiked several more places and took lots of pictures.  We even saw and heard Sea Lions and large seals.  Fun!

We ended up going to Charleston, a small town nearby for a fish lunch and then wove our way back to Coos Bay.  We went down town Coos Bay and looked over the boardwalk where there is an interesting interpretive walk explaining many things about the town.  Fun!   By about 3:30pm a fog and clouds started rollin in.  And it looked like time to head home. so now we are in our cozy little home with the temperatures outside still about  57. Still very nice weather for November 17th.  I just praise God for days like this that surprise you! 

Have a great day wherever you are!!!

Jan for Roving Reimers

Check out our pictures as I added some of the coast from our day today.
 

We moved from Bellingham, Washington two weeks ago.  We had parked here in the same place last fall so were glad to be able to park here again. BECAUSE kent had to fly to Phoenix almost as soon as we were settled in here.  So I took him to the airport and then was wondering what to do with all the time she had on her hands.  

Well, for the past year I have not been able to do almost anything creative. I had kept my scrap book things but had thought that i would just have to give them away.  WELL, I pulled out the things and decided to work on a album of our children’s weddings.  I had the pictures for I had planned to do one..but things moved so quickly for us when moving into this lifestyle..I had not had time. SO.. I got busy and because I thought the weather might be a little rainy...Well, it was VERY RAINY! So I stayed near home and worked on the album, only going out for supplies.  It literally rained 5 days and nights... It could have been very dreary, but I was busy and didn't mind it too much!

I got it done!!! I would rent movies at the library to help me pass the time or listen to the radio and I just kept working.  I am so excited that I got it done and I have decided to not give my things away but that at times I could work on projects like this.  

 Kent did get home and had a wonderful and busy week here renewing friendships and catching up on things at home. He had a very busy week in Phoenix and god is using the contacts there in neat ways.  We take off tomorrow for Corvallis, Oregon and then on to the coast.

Now I am working on Thanksgiving cards.  I have some already but will make some too.  I like to send Thanksgiving cards for several reasons..First of all, because I am very thankful to have people in my life that love, care for and pray and support us!  Thanksgiving seems like a time to be giving Thanks to those people as well as to God for having them.  I always try to send cards to our supporters at this time of year.  They have been trusted, valuable and appreciated friends over these 30 years of ministry.  We are very thankful for them!  I hope you have many people in your life that you are thankful for! If not,  try to make some new friends!  

Love and gratitude,
Jan and Kent the Roving Reimers

I have to tell you that I was sooo excited to see all of our family in one place.  It has been since last December that we’ve all been together.  It seemed a whole lot longer than that too.  I could not wait to see and hold Silas now a big three year old. I was like a kid on Christmas morning, just trying to stay calm until they arrived.

We were able to get together in Bellingham, Washington which is about 80 miles north of Seattle, where Kent’s parents are living.  They are still living on their own and still on their small farm, which is remarkable since they are 87 and 83. We are grateful that they have relatively good health and are still able to get to events that they want to go to. And the family wanted to see them and the farm, therefore the reason for going there.

We decided to do an October trip for our family for several reasons. One was because Kara had a fall break and had been thinking of she and her husband Nick going to see grandma and grandpa.  We also were coming to visit grandma and grandpa to help with fall chores before heading south for the winter(yes, we are like the birds and look for warmer weather.)  So we just needed to get Josh, Teresa and Silas there.  Class schedules as well as work schedules looked like we wouldn’t all be there but in the end God worked out those details.  So we did get 2 1/2 days together with all of our family. What a special time it was too!

We as a family did get to Vancouver, Canada..so we all got to use our passports, yes even Silas has one. We had a great day exploring and seeing the beautiful area.  The weather was just great the entire weekend and I was thrilled.  On Sunday we all went to church with grandpa and grandma and also Kent’s sister’s family as well.  We had a great time all in all and it went by way too fast.

Kara had off all week and so stayed two extra days with us and that was just lots of fun! She even made us a carrot soup from grandpa’s delicious carrots right from the garden.

I was sad when they were all gone BUT we got busy helping with fall chores.  We helped dad along with the help of many others, we took down a big fir tree. It was about 50 feet high and very lush with many branches. But we had so much help that it was taken care of much earlier than I thought it would be.  So we all did other things around the farm that would help mom and dad. We left this morning from Bellingham and traveled south past Olympia, WA.  we are parked at an Rv park called Mt St. Helen's Park. So yes we are very close to the mountain that blew its top in 1980.  We arrived early enough so we took the drive to see it. Wow!  It blew about 2000 feet off the top.  It must have been something to have seen it.  We did see the mountain before it blew its top and have never taken the time to go back and see it now.  So we did today.  

I will put on some new photos and include one of the mountain for you.  But of course the most important ones are of the family.  

Love to you all,

Jan for the Roving Reimers

I have been working all week long on a project that I have been wanting to do since before we moved into our RV over a year ago.  I have ben digitizing our old slides.  When we were married over 33 years ago..many of us took slides cause it was cheaper. I know this generation with all the digital photography probably can not understand what I mean by that, but trust me that is what many of us in our age group did.

So the big project has been to try to scan all of these old slides into our friends (our hosts) computer and then eventually to make a DVD of them.  Then we can actually show them to our family and others who might like to see these old pictures.  Well, our hosts, Denny and Brenda Lippert have all the great computer equipment and a great scanner and a software program (Photoshop) which even helps you to restore the picture in many ways.  I had been doing so much restoring that I wasn’t going to get all the slides scanned. so today I only scanned and that part is almost done.  I ask Kent for my birthday to get me the software to fix minor things anyway, and that will help a lot to actually seeing these pictures.

So what are all these pictures that I have been working on?? Well mot of them were taken before we had children. Some of them even before we were married while dating and college days.  We were married 5 years before our kids came along.  Kent went to aviation school in Tennessee, all of the people and then traveling we did as we joined the mission and then traveled west together for the first time for me.  It was interesting to see all of these over 30 year old pictures. We sure looked young  in them.  Once they are digitized and on a DVD I will post some of them for you to have a laugh. Also we had over 100 of us living in Brazil and lots of interesting things there.  

Wow! Doing this project has been another one of those God moments for me.  Just seeing all the places god has taken us and the many good friends along the way, has been truly a blessing. So even though it has taken a long time to get it done, I am very grateful in many ways, both to God for our life in Him and for Brenda and Denny Lippert for allowing me to do it on their equipment.  Praise God! I got finished with scanning in the slides today!! Yeah!

I hope you are preserving your history in some way. It sure is a fun testimony to the next generation.  

May God give you many good memories that you want to preserve!

Love in Christ,

Jan for the Roving Reimers



Kent and I celebrated another anniversary in September.

No, not a wedding anniversary but one just as significant. 30 years in missions ministry.  I can hardly believe it. We were able to put together a very special Newsletter in celebration of this significant event in our lives and ministry years.  If you have not received a copy take a look at it by going to the WorldVenture web site  at:

http://worldventure.com/Missionaries/Missionary-Directory/Missionary/Reimer_Kent_Jan/Links.html

 
I just now tried this and it worked fine. If it doesn't for you let me know. Thanks!

It was a fun and hard adventure..I was trying to sort through over a hundred pictures when I finally asked our hostess, Brenda to give me some help, BUT I never knew that she was a graphic artist and had all kinds of equipment to get this job done. Nor did I fathom the hours that she would put in to helping me make this special letter a reality much quicker than I ever could have.  So I do hope you can enjoy it.

While sorting through those pictures I was reminded of how very faithful God has been to us.  Through thick and thin He has helped us, sustained us, carried us at times and also His people have been there for us so many times.  I am so grateful to God for giving us the opportunities to minister in His name all these years. And what a life we have had; living in Alaska, the Amazon and all over the US as well visiting over 30 foreign countries. All this travel was before we moved into a RV fulltime. God has sure been keeping our life interesting!

Thanks for listening. I would love to hear from you as well.

Love and gratitude,

Jan for the Roving Reimers

We just had a few days of helping out at Kent’s parents small farm in Bellingham, WA. That is about 2 hours north of Seattle.  We have loved visiting them a little more this summer.  No, we aren’t particularly close even though we are living in Spokane, WA. We are about 6-8 hours drive away and it depends on the route that you take. We have taken the beautiful scenic route through the Cascade Mountains two times now.  It is a really gorgeous drive and I do enjoy seeing the mountains covered with the pretty NW evergreens and other vegetation in this area of the country.  

We also had some good times with Kent’s only sister LeAnn and her husband Ken.  We always enjoy being with them.

While with Mom and Dad Reimer, Kent and I had the chance to get to the beach on the Pacific Ocean.  You see I need a “beach fix” every once in a while. That is because Kent doesn’t really like the beach so he does this for me to not miss it too much.  I really like to go and enjoy the warm beaches where you can swim, but if all I get once in awhile is to see and hear the ocean and hear it, well that is pretty good too.

We drove home on Tuesday and have been trying to get a lot done before Saturday when we both fly to Denver for about a week. We have meetings at our headquarters and then a quick flight to Portland, Oregon for an all day conference that Kent is speaking at as well. So a busy next 10 days.

I did some reflecting today as well as probably most of the nation.  September 11, 2001.   I do remember being so glad that Kara, our daughter who was at a college only a hour by train to NYC, I was so glad to hear from her and know she was ok. Our son, Josh was in the US for another two weeks but headed back to N. Ireland not long afterwards as a missionary.  I was grateful to know they were both in the states on that day.  But I am so proud of our nation and how they responded. I do think the people who did this figured that this attack would knock us for a loop, and they were surprised at how we pulled together and helped each other.  What a legacy to remember and to continue! May God help us all to remember that much of that day.

May God help you to bless someone today!

Love the Roving Reimers




 

 After 8 weeks of no rain that is  NEWS! The grass has gotten greener and flowers and all are trying to perk up after all the sunshine and no rain.  

Kent flew to Phoenix, AZ on Monday to kick off the mission trips that he has been working on for the students of SouthWestern College.  He had lunch with the president and has met with several others. So he has felt that the kick off went well. We are expected to stay on campus again and that is a nice idea. So the trip has been a success.

He flies back on Saturday and we hope to go and see his parents again in Bellingham.  That is at least 7 hours away so we haven’t the the trip as often as we had thought we might.  But we would like to go and help around the farm again. We are still ironing out the details.

I got to go to a beautiful local park here in Spokane.  I love flowers and they had several areas with different types of flowers and bushes.  The one main part reminded me of a park called Mozart Park that we saw in Austria.  Very beautiful and full of color. Nice day out with our hostess and her daughter and children. Afterwards we had a Turkish meal at her daughter’s house.  Very delicious too.

Today on my way to the local library, I stopped to buy some local peaches from a man who advertised along the road. The peaches look wonderful but the conversation with the man was even better. I first was admiring his flowers and lawn,  after that we got to talking about our RV lifestyle a little because he and his wife would like to downsize.  When I said that Kent still worked full time the conversation went  from that to what we do and to spiritual things.  He was a believer and we talked about world missions until another customer came.   Sometimes in this lifestyle I become discouraged about not having any friends and then God blesses me with people like this.  So two ways that God has blessed me just lately, a visit to a beautiful garden and a believer that was willing to talk and share a bit.  

May God use you also to encourage someone.  

Love Jan for the Roving Reimers

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