Blessings…

It has been way too long since I have last updated and much has gone on! 

My mom came to visit for 6 days!!!  It was such a blessing to spend time with her!  She was a huge source of encouragement and generosity!  We spent some time in downtown Boston on Saturday.  We visited the infamous Faneuil Hall!  Boy, did we know what we were getting ourselves in to!  For those of you who don’t know…there is a huge marketplace in downtown Boston with lots of retail shops, Urban Outfitters, American Eagle, and lots of other popular shops.  In the middle of this marketplace is this train station looking place.  So we walk in to find this:

Basically for as far as you can see is a sea of people all looking for something yummy to eat!  There was every choice you could dream of including Lobster (of course)!  We navigated through Faneuil Hall successfully with a stroller and picked out something to eat for lunch! 

A few other sites we saw that day:

 

 

(live statue)

After we left downtown Boston we headed toward the coast!  We visited Marblehead, near Salem, MA and checked out this neat place, Castle Rock, the pictures explain themselves, there is a private residence that looks like a castle and then a public walkway to a huge rock that looks out over the ocean!  Check it out for yourself!

We feel so blessed to living in such a beautiful place!  This is just 15 or so minutes from where we live!  We are trying to take advantage of living in such a beautiful place! 

We have made Sunday’s a special day for our family!  Brian is studying everyday of the week, but we have set aside Sunday’s as a day of rest and time spent with God and family(no studying!).  This was something that someone recommended to us while we visited here back in March.   We have visited a few different churches and have greatly enjoyed the different worship styles.   We have been able to go hiking a few times and enjoy the beautiful leaves!  The leaves are just starting to change around here!  There are some beautiful red trees and of course yellow and orange!  This has been a fun time as a family to enjoy the beautiful creation the Lord has blessed us with.  We have also made an effort to spend time as couple that evening when Connor goes to bed!  Setting aside Sunday’s like this has been rejuvenating to Brian and I both.  It allows us both to reset and get ready for another busy week of work and school!  It also helps us to keep perspective for why we are here and what God is doing in our lives!

BLESSING #2

Our house has a resident!!  We have officially rented our house!  Thank you so much for your prayers in this area.  The Lord has been teaching Brian and I both a hard lesson in trusting him in EVERYTHING!  We wanted so bad to sell our house, but the Lord had other plans!    Thank you everyone for helping us try to find someone and for praying for provision!  The Lord does provide and it is always in his timing and his timing is the BEST!

BLESSING #3

Valerie & Keely are coming to visit in 2 days!  I am looking forward to spending time with both of them!!  We are excited to go sight seeing with them and to play in the Boston area some more!  I am sure I will have another post to come soon about all the fun we will have!

As always thank you for reading!

Till next time,

Marya, Brian & Connor

Prayer Requests:

• Anxiety about finances, learning to be thrifty and to budget
• Brian to continue to stay on top of his studies, perseverance & endurance
• Wisdom in all these situations as well as parenting