We had a nice surprise yesterday. We had a visitor to Christ Lives Bible Church, a missionary from Norway to Argentina. Tonje was invited to attend our church by a friend. She is here because she is going to be getting married to a ministry colleague that hails from Mexico City. She spoke good English and is involved in sports ministry in Argentina. You can see her ministry at these two websites: http://www.sportslink.com.ar/ (video about their sports ministry with cute photos of the children of Argentina learning about the Savior) and http://www.vayacondios.no/ (a nice photo of Tonje and her fiance from Mexico) The sites are in Spanish and Norwegian so instead of Span-glish, you may start to learn Span-wegian! Yesterday was also the day we decorated the church for Christmas. The kids loved participating in this venture and it reminded us of good times doing the same at First Baptist Church in Leduc. Later that afternoon, the choir practised traditional Christmas songs while Ingrid taught piano lessons to Abigail.
Monday has not been as kind to us. For the second time in the last month I tried to withdraw money from an ATM with my Canadian bank account, only to not receive money yet my account was debited. Now we are out almost $1000 while CIBC "investigates." Bad timing just before Christmas. Like some missionary friends of ours in Chile said recently on their blog, banking and paying bills has got to be the worst aspect of missions. Besides having to make multiple visits to an ATM over a few days to get enough cash to pay the bills, there are often long and slow lineups.
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