Ginny, used to say that it was like two heavens coming together. I'm looking forward to seeing Ginny. I think she'll be at the river to meet me. Once while we were in Africa in 1972, and I was in Accra with the children waiting for Brother Tom, Mary and Chuck to get back from a trip, I wanted to get some ice cream in for them. It was the Fourth of July weekend. They had a place that made good ice cream so the children and I drove to the plant and I got our ice cream. It was just closing time. On the way out I forgot that in Ghana they drive on the left side of the road and I was driving in the right lane. Another guy was on my side and I ran right into him. He got out, came over to my car, looked in and said, "How long have you been driving?' I told him ever since I was sixteen. He smiled and said, "I mean here in Ghana." I told him two weeks, and he said he had the same problem when he had just arrived. He was the Mexican ambassador to Ghana. A high official. I felt like an idiot. He told me where he lived so Chuck and I went over and paid for the damages. I was sorry I hadn't offered him our ice cream because he couldn't get any and his wife was pregnant and wanted ice cream. I wish I could remember his name. He was a real nice guy. While we were in Africa, Rebekah was two years old. She was blond and had a real light complexion. When we would have to wait in the car, we would have to have the windows rolled down because it was so hot. Little black children would reach their hands in to try to touch Bekah wanting to be friends. She didn't quite understand and didn't respond to their offer of friendship. Since she is a grown Christian wife and mother, she has many friends in the black race. A black Christian man sang at her and Brother Brad's wedding. Jeannine was five years old when we arrived in Ghana, so we found an Afro-American kindergarten for her. She enjoyed her new friends especially Robby, the little son of some other missionaries. She and Brother Joel have a nice family (Joseph, Philip and Abigail). The two boys are good soccer players. Little Abigail loves to read and is good at it. They spent two weeks with us in Angola, Indiana last summer.I hope they can do it again. Jeannine is my birthday present. My first grandchild born three days before my fifty-fifth birthday. Chuck took four waterbeds with us to Africa and I had one in my room. When I would do any mending, I would sit on my waterbed and once I forgot that it was a waterbed and I stuck my pins into it. When it began to seep water and got wet, I blamed Bekah thinking that she had wet the bed. That's only one of the many mistakes I have made in my lifetime. Going to Africa was one of the highlights of my life. Then last summer going to Israel on a tour with a Christian group was another highlight. It was nice that they put up with me. I was the oldest. All my children were with me but Sid and I hope if I ever go again he'll go with me. It was so rewarding to walk where Jesus walked. Our family is in different parts of the country now. Brother Joe Dillard is in Arizona. There is no distance that can really separate family when love binds them together. You can live next door and if love is lacking, days and weeks can go by and there is no communication. Sister Jeannine and Brother Joel will be moving to Pennsylvania. I wish they could have chosen Indiana, but we have to go where we are led. I'm not always in Indiana either, but love will continue to keep us close. I believe that we can keep an open channel by writing to each other and keep our prayers going up for each other and we aren't here in this life very long. We can prepare for our heavenly home where we can all be close together eternally. I appreciate Rebekah and Brad and their little darling, Charity Grace, living near me in Angola. Even if I'm only there in the summer time, we do get together. My two daughters live real close and have been a blessing to me and I appreciate all that has been done for me through the years. Brother Tom was so concerned about me when I lived in the bank building that he found a way that I could borrow from the government for my little house in Linn Grove. It made a big difference to me to have my own little house. God bless Brother Tom for his efforts. When we lived in Linn Grove, Adam and Chuck were burning trash and Adam caught on fire. It was awful. He ran into the house and got under the shower, the best thing he could have done. From Bluffton Clinic they took him to Fort Wayne to the burn unit and he healed up without even having a scar. He's quite a young man. He's going to college and also studying at Huntington, learning tool and die work like his dad. He and Dan live together in Fort Wayne. Dan is a super car salesman and is continuing his college studies at Indiana-Purdue University. He is studying to be a teacher.