The Simplest Things

The other day Gabriel sat in his highchair and played with a damp washcloth for over a half an hour. He was soooo cute!!! I couldnt resist snapping a few shots. Its funny how the simplest things can mean so much. Well, my computer is acting up, so enjoy the pics!

Fun with the Jost family

Last week our family enjoyed the fun and fellowship of having the Jost family (the Josties) in town for a concert at our church. Sadly, even brownies with huckleberry sauce and ice cream, not to mention my amazing chocolate velvet decaf coffee, could not convince them to move to Idaho. :-(

Nevertheless we had a ton of fun cramming 21 people (10 Primers, 11 Josts) into our tiny house for meals. The saying "The more the merrier." certainly became true!
I think we got the most laughs out of star tripping (if you haven't tried it its a MUST), and Josiah reading "The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig" book to Hannah and Bethany, (that is definitely a family favorite).
Their concert was amazing, and we have been playing their CD ever since.
We greatly enjoyed their amazing family and are looking forward to the next time we can get them to come see us! :-)

"Reel" Women

Last weekend my family went camping with 3 other families from our church. The campground we camped at was near a reservoir where our brothers were spending their every spare minute fishing. After reading " MaryJanesFarm" magazine, (www.maryjanesfarm.com/magazine.html) my two best friends (my lil' sis Rosie, and close friend Brandie) and I were inspired to be "reel women" and be cute and feminine fisherwomen! So we hiked down to the dock and we fished from there until my brother John brought his canoe in, then he let us borrow it, what a nice big brother! We were a little tippy at first, but soon we got the hang of it, and were gliding along smoothly. We rowed out to a small island, and pulled the canoe on shore, after exploring the island we hopped back in the canoe and headed for shore. It was soooooooo much fun. so as you can see, we found out that you can be feminine no matter what you're doing!

Interested In Men

"Above all else guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life" Proverbs 4:23

women
I have noticed that we young women are often times interested in men…
I have noticed, also, that as we get older we start to long for the role that we, as Christians, were designed to fulfill: Being a wife, mother, friend, and helper to the man that we marry. Now we have two options:
(1. We can patiently prepare ourselves to become a helpmeet.
(2. We can chase after every breathing man with two legs.

Another thing that I have noticed in our culture today, is that even among our churches, the second is the more frequently traveled path.

Being set apart
The world advertises love; there are books, movies, TV shows, music, magazines, and websites; dedicated to stories of “love”; stories about Cinderella and Prince Charming.
There are many Christian authors who write fictitious stories of romance, idealizing love until we come to believe that if only, if only , we could get hitched to someone with a y chromosome, that we would live happily ever after in perfect bliss. Alas, the trap is well set, and the snare is easy to fall into, our generation has been lied to, and persuaded to the point where we are ready to believe that every male our age that we know is madly in love with us. We crave love and so, we read every Christian romance that we can get our hands on, we watch every chic-flick that comes out, and we listen to the never ending line of Taylor Swift songs that paint love as a fairytale.
The world teaches us that “love” is a physical attraction between two people. But what does the Bible say???
“Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
As you can clearly see, God’s idea of love is vastly different from the world’s.
I want to encourage you to renounce the ways of the world, to travel the path-less-taken, to be set apart. This is the road that I’m on, I try to be careful about the books I read the movies I watch, the music I listen to, the thoughts that I have about the young men that I know. Instead of focusing on boys, I try to focus on becoming the godly woman that a godly man will need. I’m far from perfect and very human; I have to work on these things every day. At sometimes it’s harder than at others but God gives me the strength to persevere; I pray that he will bless you in this way too!

Applesauce

Every year my family picks lots and lots of apples, and evry year we make lots and lots of applesauce. this year we picked early apples, and began a three day session of applesauce-making. first we cut the apples, normally you would slice them up, but these ones are little so we just chopped them in half, then we cook the apples until they're soft and mushy. then we put them thru the applesauce maker/ juicer thingy :-) and smush them all up, the machine seperates the core, peel, seeds, and all that stuff from the applesauce, then when we have a full batch of applesauce we add sugar and cinnamon. then we can the applesauce and store it. we usually have enough to last for a year. heres some pictures. Enjoy:

Mexico Pictures

At the airport- Headed for mexico
on the plane

here is our lost luggage

a youth worship service we attended- very convicting

Daddy- the team leader

The team

Me

Rose

Brandie

Grandma Jody

Mr. Eric Berard

Mexico

Hey everyone, i'm back in the states now, and reliving my time in Mexico! I promised I would tell all, so here goes: Tue. morning we left Fernwood at about 4:00 a.m. and headed for the air port, after a 2 1/2 hour drive checking in and security, we were on our first flight, we had an unexpected flopover to another plane at our next stop then two more flights before we finally landed in San Diego CA, where we met our hosts, the True Light Ministry gang: Dave, matteo, and Simeon. we waited for our luggage at the luggage claim for about an hour...but it never came. sooooooo we reported our lost baggage to the airport then headed to Costco for supplies. After eating lunch and shopping at Costco, we headed for Wal-Mart, we wernt expecting our luggage to be found until the next day so there were some basic neccesities that we needed. when we got out of the store Dad called the airline to check up on our luggage, while he was on the phone with someone in Texas the San Diego airport called Daves cell to let us know tht they found our luggage, which had apparently gotten lost when we had to swich planes. That was the first lesson God taught me, always trust Him cause He'll take care of things. And we wernt even over the border yet!!! Crossing the boarder was no problem since the True Light guys are running back and forth picking up missionaries all the time. For the next week we spent each day like this: wake up about 7:00 a.m., daily meeting, breakfast, worship and devotions, chores, construction (during this time we painted, built houses, cleaned up the area, or whatever needed to be done)in the afternoon we ate lunch, hed personal devotions, and then we went into the local community and just played with the kids at the park. Sunday, we went to a local church to worship with the people. that afternoon we experienced what we call "culture day" we went to a local taco reasteraunt then we went shopping in the city park where there are little booths selling souveneers. after shopping we went back to the campus. Monday was our last day there and we went to a local day care and played with the children there who mostly came from single parent families. after the day care we went back to campus and did a general cleanup around the neighborhood, then worship, devotional, closing meeting and then bed. Tue ornng we crossed the border into the USA and arrived safely at the airport. after saying goodbye, we boarded our plane and settled in for the ong flight home, no unplanned flop-overs or lost luggage. Now here I am back in Idaho. Hope yall enjoyed my adventure!!!

In Christ Anna Primer.