Monday, September 18, 2006

A very sick computer

Dear friends,
It is with sad hearts we write to you tonight.  Our computer decided to give up on life this past week and with it, all our pictures, address book, copies of all our important documents, etc died.  We are now feeling very disconnected from life outside of our home.  A friend here is trying to recover the hard drive but tonight he was not too hopeful there would be anything left of it.  So we are hoping that many of you from our email list read our blog and can write to us so that we can update our address files once more.  If you don't mind, we'd love the full info on your family, such as...
Names of all members of your family
Address for mail
Email addresses
web or blog address
phone numbers
and for those of you whom we might not know well (i.e. we met you at a church last summer), please include where we met you, so that we can help our not so trusty minds recall the name and the face.
Aslo, if you would include birthdays, we would love that too!

I kept this all in outlook before and am lost without it. 

Please pray for DJ as he works with our computer that God would supernaturally "heal" our hard drive.  I know that there are many worse things that could happen to us, but being so far away without the connections to the people we love and who are praying for us makes the distance seem so much farther.

A quick update on us.  We just returned from a few days at the beach about five hours away and are very rested from the time there.  We needed that time to unwind our minds and bodies and were excited to begin class again today.  We are now  in unit 4 and with this unit, the structure of our class time and study time at home has changed.  We are now in class from 1pm till 3 pm each day and then have 4 or 6 more hours of study at home, analyzing language.  It is a welcome change from the first three units.  And we are now able to see Jack much more of the day.  Pray for us to balance our time well and to get the most out of this unit. 

We are all fairly healthy and for that we are thankful.  Joel is getting over a cold but seems to be on the mend.  Jack's vocabulary is expanding each day and he is growing like crazy!  I am also growing and have entered the "oh, why can't I get my pants buttoned anymore?" stage of pregnancy.  We will go for the first checkup later this week and get a preliminary ultrasound. 

Ok so that's all for now.  Thanks for getting back to us at our email address: joel-bethany_potter@ntm.org with your contanct information.  We miss you all!

Bethany for Joel and Jack too!

3 comments:

Joe and Terri said...

Man, I am sorry to hear that you have lost your hard drive unless a miracle. Amazing isn't it. You have a great time at the beach, shore, sea or whatever they call it there but then this comes just a bit later. God will work I am sure. I am going to find out how to protect ourselves from the same malady. Thanks for writing. I am forwarding a little excerpt from a former UFM missionary to Indonesia. We are enjoying GT. Mom and I went to the Oasis for lunch--a yummy shrimp and brocolli Chinese type of thing and tossed garden salad, fruit salad, and rolls with home made lemonaide. Later at supper time I suggested we go back for a cooldown, pick me up type break which ended up as supper since we never go hungry after the chocolate fudge cake and Jamacian Blue Mountain coffee for me and chocolate crouisante and Passion Fruit Juice for Terri. We read old mags and current newspapers :) It was so cool--(actually the ac was too cold for me too ;)

Yesterday we went to Pegasus with Glovers and had steak and mushrooms and Mom had Chicken Shish Kabobs with steamed vegetable rice. So we are eating our way through GT. I walk every afternoon but alas Terri isn't able to yet. We have had fun. We trust God to work in Terri's class and our time here in Guyana. Soon we will be the only CW missionaries in our area of Guyana so we will have to keep in touch with the Glovers by phone and some by visiting as well.

May you soon be up and running again. Love ya, dad

PS we have a new screen saver--the one of Jack looking at us from an upside down position. Like on our blog page. Cute. Thanks for the photos that you send.

Anonymous said...

I e-mailed Tom D. and he agrees that info on the hard drive can most likley be salvaged by someone experienced. If all else fails I'll bring it back with me. Also Laura D had her Gall. B. out last week and felt like you did.
More Later, Mom in MO

Bek. said...

Yikes for old computers and pants that just won't button! I really hope that you get the info recovered. In the mean time, I'll be sending my info to you.
I love you four!