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Dezi called last night with someone special on her lap. Dezi was in tears and seemed over joyed at meeting Raena for the first time. She thought Raena was everything I had said about her and more. She put the phone up to her and she said "hello, big brother" to Ian in Chinese of course, and also said hi to me and that she missed me. Dezi decided to stay with Raena for the entire time and went on down to Lotung for the week to spend time with Misti Jennings and the Skiles. They should receive the last document I FEDEXed this morning by Thursday evening so Dezi will take Raena to the AIT office on Friday and complete the process once and for all. She plans on remaining in Taipei then and staying with Renae Sheldon at Chad & Alicia Edwards apartment who are currently on furlough and going to worship at the Taipei Christian Church and seeing all of our friends.

Today was a good day with the boys... of course, 3 of them were at VBS all morning and then stayed a couple hours at the Finchers house and an hour at the grandparents while I did errands and buy groceries. But we discussed new responsibilities and who is in charge of cleaning each room, doing dishes, etc. and so far it is going pretty smoothly. Joe & Regina Green had us over last evening for fresh corn on the cobb, and Sandy Fincher made us a great Taco casserole tonite. Aaron Wright plans on bringing a lasagne dish over tomorrow so we are being spoiled. That or they all worry about the boys with just me here!

I have had a couple of requests this week to make available the electronic versions of the books we have translated into Chinese for better access in China. So, I'm checking into the viability and copyright laws for this option. It does seem a better way to get the word out, however, we do not want to infringe upon some one else's labor.

Sherry Wallis is continuing to work for our Team Expansion office here at Central and she is also taking a part time position with Central in planning their big events as Public Relations Coordinator. It is a position she is well equipped for and has held this position in the past for Central. They are working on our new office that will be located in what was once the student union and mail room. We should be relocating (for the 5th time) within the next couple of weeks! This is a good thing as so much growth at Central is causing many changes to take place on a regular basis. There is a possibility that I may be teaching a new class for freshman this semester and I hope it will work out. If so, it will give me an opportunity to meet the new students much sooner as usually I have sophomores or upper classmen in my courses.