Sister's fellowship day

So Ruth Laben being off work headed round to the Lewis' and brought with her another amazing sister, Colleen Uiga. We decide to cook dinner and head out to the shops when an amazing smell hypnotises us.. we instantaneously decide we're doing takeaway Thai instead!

Then we were driving on a Friday evening, on busy LA roads to Irvine, to meet up with many sisters from the LA area for a Sister's weekend on the topic of prayer.

We had such an amazing time. Was amazing to meet so many more sisters and to be encouraged by them. We brainstormed our questions, and then discussed, and then concordanced the word 'prayer' and summarised our findings. We still have to match the questions with our summarisings. It was a good experience to have so many people's perspectives.

The weekend was hosted by Elissa Brinkerhoff and it was cool to catch up with her again after emailing, but not having seen her for over 6 years!



Nathan Lewis did the exhort in the LA ecclesia and we had refreshments straight after followed by ss. We joined Ben Brink's class on love which was well done. They have a birthday custom at the meeting where you all put into a jar the amount of cents you have turned. One lady had just finished with the cents custom and through in triumphantly a $1 bill. Wow.

We had an amazingly healthy ecclesial lunch. There were no hot dogs, hamburgers or pizza to be seen...but lashings of salad, homus, chicken & fruit.

... we enjoyed gorgeous weather in LA... was like our Australian Adelaide summer.

More goodbye's.

We spent the afternoon playing Emperor Scum at Starbuck's with Nathan & Susanna, Meaghan Vaughn, Ruth Laben & Colleen Uiga before we had an emotional parting.



Then we were at the airport... and getting on board the Thai airways flight with bright purple, pink, yellow and ? seats for the 17 hour flight to Bangkok.

The night continued forever, and then we were alighting, and shocked to find ourselves at 6:10 am in the arms of our brother and sister-in-law.