The puzzle.

Tonight's picture is a better one of the puzzle we finished yesterday. I'm so hooked on this puzzle. Those faces were so fun to find!

Today was a very interesting day. Our new preacher preached his first two sermons and everyone was so pleased to have him. He and his family are fun, so I think we are blessed to have them here. We have another new couple at church who wanted to get to know everyone better, plus give everyone a chance to get to know the new preacher and his family, so they invited the whole church out to their house for a cookout after church tonight. What a gathering. I'm guessing there were 60 people, but there was no way to count everyone. I'll have to sit down and make a list. Anyway, it was a great turnout. We filled our car with 7 people and drove out there. They live in the mountains about 15 miles from town, so it was really cool to go out there and great fellowship.

This is about our 4th day of rain, so the weather is really unusual. It's cool for July 4th, so we're happy with that. The sunshine should be back in a day or two. We give thanks for the break in the heat and for our fantastic country and our freedom. I pray that we can keep it, but it sure looks to me like we are 'losing ground' if we keep up at the rate we are going.