To My Precious Grandchildren

Hello my darling grandchildren,
I thought I would take this time to write to you. I miss you all so much and the more I see children around here the more I miss you. I hope you all are doing well--Grace and James, you are on vacation, Nathan, you are just home from vacation and Emery, you are just keeping your mom and dad busy as you explore everything.
I have seen many things and taken many pictures which I will show you when I come home. The people here are just like you and me and the children have toys like you, and the older kids have cell phones and games on the computer. God made all people the same all over the world.
The difference only that I see, is that the children are taught several languages from the time they are little--in some towns like Anenii Noi, people speak both Russian and Romanian. If they don't learn it, they will not know what half the people are saying.
This is a very poor country, though. There are not nearly as many cars and trucks and the roads are horrible. Homes are small and many without plumbing and electricity but most are clean. The way this country is today reminds me of when I was a child. People didn't worry about getting the best of everything then. You used what you had.
There aren't many believers of Jesus here, and my job has been to visit in the homes and share God's love with them through the food parcels we made and giving haircuts if they want them. So far, I have given 22 haircuts.. One older couple we visited yesterday, did not get haircuts, but, they gave me something--a shirt made by the man's grandmother and greatgrandmother 150 years ago. I couldn't believe she would want to give it away, but she insisted and said whenever I look at it, I must pray for Moldova's freedom from communism and for all in the country to find God and His love. I assured her I would do just that.
I have been so blessed by coming here--Praise God!
My love always to you and your parents!

Grammy