Hey all! What a day! We are so amazingly blessed to be in this country. Even the air feels God-breathed. Tonight after dinner we listened as Fox News Correspondant Mike Tobin spoke on what he does and some of the details politically of this region. It was really great to hear him. Mike Tobin is really awesome. Look for him on Fox and say Hi for me.

Tomorow's the free day. Neal and I are taking a lot of people around the old city. I just love this golden city-this amazing place.

Hello everyone! We're in Bethleham right now. The city is definitely doing better than it did a few years ago in the sense of being busier. We just had lunch of schwarma or falofil and now on to the church of the nativity. Then shop, shop! We've had great weather today. Fun to hang out with Mary, Donna, Ken, Laura, Percy, Armanda, David, Herrimans, Hannah, and everyone else.

Yesterday we had lovely rain all day. When we got to Tabor, we ended up going into the church for our own service. But it turned into a wonderful time and that is so how God is. He takes things that normally aren't so fun and turns them into tons of the stuff. Then we zigzagged back down the mountain in the taxi's. After some delicious coffee which dearest Neal got for me (my valentine's day present-the way to a woman's heart is through caffeine) we traveled to Megido. It was still raining but it was fun going down into the water tunnel. Then on to the Jordan River for the baptism where the brave among us got baptized. It was really cold and raining and Dad is one brave man to do all the baptisms.