News and Updates!

Greetings one and all!!

News from the Almost-Far-East...

Linus, the Piggie, has a new baby ..er...half-brother.
His name is Schroeder... 'nother Peanuts reference there. We picked him up this last Thursday...oh what a time it was. :) He has 3 brothers and a sister that were also up for adoption. Quite a cute bunch of piggies. Su wanted to take them all home I think. :)
We also have a new car. Well...new to us. It's a 1993 Toyota Camry that has been painted shaker-can style a nice shade of flat black. It's majorly ghetto...we call it the "Stealth Bomber". It's really not too bad...one of the guys from church actually did a lot of work on it, so at $600 it's a steal. Most importantly however, it is fully paid for. Which is always nice. We've been doing the Dave Ramsey thing and getting out of debt...so the Matrix has to go. Hopefully Craigslist will provide us with a buyer out here...we are aiming to sell it and get a little extra.

Andrew has a new job as a Floor Host at a local restaurant known as the "Pizzetta".
It's sort of a SportsBar atmosphere, the food is a bit overpriced - but second to none.
I just finished training and will hopefully move up to Door Host soon, and then on to Server. The place is under entirely new management, so making friends with the new managers has been a good thing.
Su is still working happily for Starbucks, and her training is going quite well also. She is working for both the Lihue and Kapaa stores on different days, and so she is getting the best of both worlds.

The Rent situation is looking a little better...some folks we know from church have an Ohana (multi-family dwelling) that they are just finishing rennovating with a second add-on.
This is actually fairly close to where we live now, but is located closer to our jobs and the church. So we shall see how that pans out. Another lady has offered us a room up here in the Homesteads, and that may also be an option.

Please Pray for us as we go thru this new season. We had not anticipated working "normal" jobs as much as we are, but the situation with the college has forced us more into the mainstream market place for jobs and housing.
- Pray that the Matrix will sell for a good price
- Pray that our housing gets resolved quickly
- Pray that the work here goes on as the Lord would have it to.

Our upcoming projects are to connect internet for the church, and obviously more video work as well as advertising and fundraising for the college as they seek to house the female students in a new locale.

Finally, I leave you with this video I made with Josh Turansky outlining the new area for the girls.
Enjoy!