4 weeks in Bishop...

July 28, 2008

Hi!  Hope the Lord is touching your life in a mighty way!

We have been in Bishop for almost 4 weeks… and today will be our 4^th Sunday.  We have averaged 30-40 people each week… pretty good for having so many out of town!  Kelly is doing a series on The Church.  We are trying to post his sermons online (hitting some glitches, but there are two on the site so far), so check out our website and listen in!  www.BishopCreekCommunity.org.

There is beauty all around us, and the people are fabulous!  We have been spending time with lots of people… which has been great!  We’ve met at local restaurants (one of our favorites is Jacks), or at the local coffee shop (Looney Bean), or at people’s homes… oh, I almost forgot… Kelly’s been meeting with people a couple times a week at the local golf course… Bishop Country Club.  With gifts from Kelly’s mom and Suzanne’s parents, we were able to purchase a membership for him!  How wonderful!  It’s amazing how many people in our church LOVE to golf!  (What a great fit!)

Kelly spends a lot of time preparing his sermons (at home, Starbucks, or at the church) while Suzanne works on the website and other administrative or “tech”y things.  Suzanne joined Weight Watchers this week, and really enjoyed the people there.  It will be good for her in many ways. 

We had our first visitor this week!  Debbie Miersma and her friend, Marilyn, came up to go hiking… and stopped by to say, “HI!”  How fun!  Yesterday Kelly and Suzanne drove up to Mammoth to have dinner with Suzanne’s cousins… Jeff & Becky Stamps!  They were honeymooning at another mutual cousin’s condo up there!  How fun!  Tomorrow Suzanne will go up and pick them up, and they will drive down to Orange County with her.  (The timing worked out perfectly!)  She will be working at the house trying to get the rest of the stuff packed up, and the house ready to put on the market.  She will head back up at the end of the week.

Next Sunday, August 3, there will be an Installation Service up here.  Wally Norling (Kelly’s mentor) and Steve Elliott (Kelly’s coach) will be running the show.  Afterwards the Pratt family has invited everyone over for a potluck/BBQ celebration.  (Sherrin calls it the Coronation Ceremony Celebration.) 

Neat things are happening here!  We hope you keep in touch, and covet your prayers for us, the church, and the community of Bishop!  Thanks for all of your prayers and support!!!  We appreciate you!

In Christ,

Kelly & Suzanne J

PO Box 1271  Bishop, CA 93515
www.Larsons4Jesus.com
Larsons4Jesus@gmail.com 

Visitors!!!

We had our first visitor today!  Debbie Miersma was on her way up to Mammoth and stopped by with her friend Marilyn!  Yeah!  We met them at Carl's Jr. for something cold to drink!  How fun!  Debbie & Marilyn will spend the night in Mammoth and then go backpacking for the rest of the week.  (Better them than me!)

Who will be our next visitor?  Will it be... YOU?

All Roads Lead to Bishop... We Hope!

Hope you can visit us here in Bishop!  We would love to see you!  Let us know when you're headed our way!!!

We have been here for two weeks now... but it has been a whirlwind few months!!!  Let me try to bring you up to date!

On July 1, 2008 we loaded up the cars and headed to Bishop.  Wish it was that simple!  Suzanne managed to hit her head REALLY hard on the edge of her car door and had a big knot on her forehead for about a week... there's still a bit of a bump now.  Luckily it didn't knock her out or bleed!  We could only take what we could load in both of our vehicles, so we had to really pick and choose what went with us.  So, it was all boxes... the only "furniture" that went with us was the bird's cages.  (They, of course, traveled inside the vehicles with us... one in each car.)  We had planned on leaving at 10am... but at 2:30pm we were finally on the road.  We arrived in Bishop at about 7:30 or 8:00pm.

We were so blessed by what we found!  Around 10 people from our church came over and helped us unload both cars!  They even brought us care packages and dinner!  WOW!  What an amazing group of people the Lord has allowed us to be a part of!  We already had a bed, beach chairs, and some kitchen stuff in the condo/apartment, so once everything was unloaded we were able to warm up dinner, hang out in the living room, and then hit the sack!  No problems sleeping!!!

Since then we've spent our time sorting, unpacking, organizing, and re-arranging... people have brought over a couch (Lazy Boy sofa bed!), lamp, tables, and chairs... and we've been thrift shopping and garage sale-ing and picked up a couple temporary desks, bookshelves, table, side tables, toaster,... and broke down and went to K-Mart and bought a fan and humidifier (did you know that the average humidity in Bishop is 7%???).  This lovely, little place is feeling more homey every day... but there's still lots to do!  

Ok, you may be wondering why ALL our time is spent here in the condo/apartment?  Well, it's not.  Kelly walks down the street to Starbucks most mornings and spends time studying there.   I walk next door to the fairgrounds and talk to the horses... and bring them carrots.  We have met with most of the core people in the church... a few have been out of town, or we haven't been able to set up a time yet.  The core group here is amazing!  They are serious about going deep in their walk with the Lord!  It is so exciting!  

I've been working on the church's website a lot.  Check out what I have so far... and keep checking back, 'cause I'm adding more all the time!  www.BishopCreekCommunity.org  I'm even working on getting Kelly's sermons on there!  I've gotten SOME of my "Thank YOU!" notes written, but have tons more to do... so if you've not gotten your yet, PLEASE forgive me!  I hope to get them done soon!

It's been really hot most days... in the upper 90s or low 100s.  We have a wall AC unit in the living room, and use the fan in the bedroom at night.  It does cool down at night, so we open up all the windows... and that helps a lot!  Sunday evening after church we were hanging out after church talking when it started raining... it was great!  The kids and I were all out enjoying the coolness and the moisture!  The rest of the adults opted for shelter.  :)  Monday night we got rain around 8pm.  Kelly had just finished golfing with a couple from the church.  It POURED!!!  We got rain off and on almost all night!  Wonderful!!!

We will probably go back to Fullerton sometime soon to finish packing and organizing the house so we can put it on the market.  Once we sell or lease it we will be able to figure out what we're doing here (buy or lease).  Until then, we're enjoying this little place that's close to everything!

Thank you for your prayers, notes, encouragement, and support!  They mean so much to us!

Hope to see you soon! 

Update on Kayla... WOW! Check this out!

Sunday, June 29 we went down to LaJolla and visited Kayla and Laura.  AMAZING, MIRACULOUS things are happening!  She is now speaking, reading, and eating!  Check out her blog for more information.  Thanks for your past and continued prayers!

Click here to see what's happening with Kayla!!!  

Generations Commissioning Service for the Larsons Photos

On June 8, 2008 Generations had a commissioning service for us.  We have some great photos from that day, so I thought I'd share them.  I uploaded them so if you click on this link, you should be able to see them... http://gallery.me.com/zanluvskel/100008  The user name is generations and the password is larsons4jesus.  Enjoy!