One of our missionaries in Costa Rica who works with connecting teams to new church plants became one of our dearest friends and an adopted grandparent to Kaila and Josiah. He is the coolest, most fun, tek inclined connector we have encountered in a while. His name is David Brown.
Well, we were fortunate to be with him in a conference in Panamá back in April and his grandson visited there while we were at conference. It worked out that his grandson had the brunt and Josiah had the Spanish. So, we all let the boys roam in the streets of Panama as we were in the conference. They did just great. Later on, his family came to Costa Rica to visit and we had the unexpected blessing that Lynn, his nephew's wife is a hair dresser. Below is Kaila getting her professional haircut.
So far in Costa Rica I had been doing the haircuts because the people there had told me that the hairdressers liked to chop hair. Well, one day Josiah was desperate for a haircut and Kaila decided to do the haircut. It turned out as good as could have been expected considering her inexperience. So, this is where Lynn comes in. What was the chance for his family to have a hairdresser amongst them.
Well, as you can imagine she came to his rescue and blessed us all with haircuts.
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| Uncle David teasing Josiah |
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| Good fellowship with a beautiful family from Michigan |
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| Lynn's husband is a Pastor in Michigan. |
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| Lynn cutting Jeff's hair |
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Kaila so happy with her haircut
Another aspect for which David was known for in our family was icecream. Icecream in Costa Rica is very expensive. Well, Uncle David sure spoiled my kids when he came over. It was Uncle David who also had taken us to cut our Christmas tree in December and spent time in the hospital with Josiah as we were supposed to have been discharged at noon and six hours later we were finally out the door at the time of Josiah's surgery. We want to thank God for Uncle (Grandpa) David and the timeliness that God had in just having him show up when we needed a good visit with him and viceversa. |
