Answered prayers

Hello everyone, just wanted to share how God has been working and answering prayers in our lives this week. First, my neighbor, Brenda, who we have been inviting to church for over 6 months, came to church with us this morning for the first time! She has been active in church previously, but quit going for a long time. So, we just Praise the Lord that she was willing to go. Please pray that she will continue to have a desire to be involved in church and God's word.
Also, Aaron has had some good opportunities to encourage and befriend one of his fellow students who just recently became a Christian. He also came to church this morning. He is looking for a church home.
Also, we were discussing with our pastor last night about the need for a new sunday school class for our age group because there are so many new people coming in. And after talking about it, our pastor said that he had been praying about the same thing, and about Aaron and I leading it. So.........we are very excited about starting a new sunday school class in about a month that we will be able to invite other students from VCOM and other couples our age to come to! God just really worked it all out and confirmed it completely through all of us!
Also, our girls bible study at my house is progressing some and we have ordered a book to check out and see if that's what we want to use and there have been two more girls who want to come and be a part of it! It's been a slow process getting started, but I know it's all about God's timing and not mine.
Please just praise God for all of these answered prayers and encouraging things that are happening, and also pray that God would open up an outlet for me to be able to have a "Christian" influence at my school, whether it is by starting an FCA or something else. I'm not sure what I could do, but my heart is very heavy to be able to share Christ with all my kids. They need to hear it so bad, and I want to tell them. So please just pray God would work that out for this upcoming school year. THanks so much!!

My crazy husband

I just had to share this with all of you......Aaron does spend a lot of time at his desk......mostly studying, but what you might not know is that he is also practicing his kareoke routine for next year's VCOM Idol (like American Idol)!!! Here he is learning the words to Elvis' "A little less conversation". This is just one more reason I love my husband. He is one crazy guy!!

And this is just a picture I took at a park Sat. night. I like playing with our camera. Maybe someday I'll know what I'm doing and will be able to take really cool pictures.

Anyway, hope everyone has a good week. Please pray for Aaron's Grandmother Jones. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and has had surgery and is awaiting chemo, but has been put back in the hospital this past weekend because of complications. Pray that the doctors will have wisdom to treat her. Thanks. Sonya

July is here....

Playing put-put golf on our 2 year anniversary. Guess who won??? ME, sonya
WOW....I can't believe it is already July 9th! Aaron will be finished with his first year of med school on August 11th!! THAT is exciting. One year down, 3 to go until graduation.....then 3 more years of residency. Residency is exciting because he will actually get paid some :). It is just really amazing to see how God continues to enable us and provide for all of our needs each day. God is teaching Aaron so much about medicine and the human body. It's just amazing that he can learn so much in such a short period of time. Anyway, we just want to give God all the glory and praise for Aaron's good grades and continued motivation to keep studying.
Let's see.....since the last blog we have celebrated our 2 year anniversary, June 26th! We went to Winston-Salem and played around for the weekend. We also listened to our wedding on a cassette tape, which was really neat. Then we watched our wedding on the DVD when we got back home. Two years has gone by pretty fast, but it's exciting to look back at all the ways God has provided for us and stretched us to depend more on Him.
We were very excited to have a four day weekend last weekend and get to see a lot of friends and family back home. I was supposed to have to work on Monday, but it got cancelled. Praise the Lord!! So we drove to Dandridge and spent the night with my brother and my sister-in-law, Michael and Katy. Katy made the best Apple dumplings for breakfast!! They were so good. Then we were able to go to the lake and play around on the wave runners. Aaron's older brother, Clint, took us to see Superman Returns. I enjoyed it, and I noticed a lot of scenes and lines in the movie were symbolic of Christ. We also were able to hang out with our Sunday School class for a 4th of July cookout and pool party. It seemed like everyone there had a baby!!! Kids were everywhere! It was so nice to get to see everyone, but now it's back to Virginia.
We officially joined our church here in VA and became members this morning. We really like it and are excited to see how God wants us to get more involved there. Ok, well, I'm getting tired of typing so I think I'm going to download some pictures now. I have a lot more to talk about, but it will just have to wait. Hope you all have a good week.
Michael & Katy, my brother & sister-in-law. And their home... Aaron having fun on the lake at his Uncle Jerry's. Aaron was having lake withdrawals, so it's a good thing we were able to go. He's doing much better now. :)